In one work of this author, a professor dying of cancer dictates part of a letter to Mr. Vercueil. Another of his works culminates in a plane dropping "words in Spanish" on the main character. In another work, one character denounces the "smelly underwear" of realism, and Elizabeth Costello gives two lectures on animal rights rather than literature. Susan Barton is thrown 
In one work of this author, a professor dying of cancer dictates part of a letter to Mr. Vercueil. Another of his works culminates in a plane dropping "words in Spanish" on the main character. In another work, one character denounces the "smelly underwear" of realism, and Elizabeth Costello gives two lectures on animal rights rather than literature. Susan Barton is thrown from a boat on route to Lisbon in his retelling of Robinson Crusoe titled Foe, and the professor David Lurie seduces one of his students in Disgrace. For 10 points, name this author who wrote of a gardener's trek through Apartheid era South Africa in his Life & Times of Michael K.
In one work of this author, a professor dying of cancer dictates part of a letter to Mr. Vercueil.
John Maxwell {Coetzee}