For 10 points, name this author who wrote The Floating Opera and fictionalized the life of Ebenezer Cooke in The Sot-Weed Factor.
In one work by this author, a descendant of Francis Scott Key and a descendant of Edgar Allen Poe attempt to construct a novel but conclude that they themselves are fictional characters. Another novel by this man describes the six tales, which begin from the age of seven and continue until the protagonist marries Jane Pryce and Julie Moore. That novel is about Simon Baylor, who is smuggled into an Arabian Castle where he speaks to Sinbad the Sailor. This man also wrote about Todd Andrews, who decides not to kill himself after an explosion fails to go off on the title imaginary showboat. Another of this author's protagonists abandons an epic poem after being forced to work for Henry Warren and learning that Joan Toast acquired smallpox. For 10 points, name this author who wrote The Floating Opera and fictionalized the life of Ebenezer Cooke in The Sot-Weed Factor.
In one work by this author, a descendant of Francis Scott Key and a descendant of Edgar Allen Poe attempt to construct a novel but conclude that they themselves are fictional characters.
John Barth