For 10 points, name this Russian author of Fathers and Sons.
Known by the nickname "The American" for his democratic sympathies as a student, he wrote criticism like the essay "Hamlet and Don Quixote" and stories like "Mumu", in which a serf is forced to kill his beloved pet dog.  His first novel was Rudin, but he did not gain success until the publication of A Sportsman's Sketches. Also known for the play A Month in the Country and the novel A Nest of Gentlefolk, he is best known for a novel about the student Bazarov that introduced the term "nihilism."  For 10 points, name this Russian author of Fathers and Sons.
Known by the nickname "The American" for his democratic sympathies as a student, he wrote criticism like the essay "Hamlet and Don Quixote" and stories like "Mumu", in which a serf is forced to kill his beloved pet dog.  
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev