For 10 points, name this author of The Man Who Turned into a Stick and The Ark Sakura.
During the intermission in one of this author's plays, the actor playing the apartment superintendent is supposed to accost various theatregoers in the aisles and restrooms by handing them leaflets that justify his actions. That play by this author concerns a group of family members who suddenly move into a bachelor's apartment and mentally torture the bachelor until they put him into a cage and he dies of grief. In one of this author's one-act plays, a man purchases the title character from two punk rockers, who learn that they have just sold themselves to the devil. That play by this author is, along with The Cliff of Time and Suitcase, one of his three plays about the stages of human life. This author of Friends wrote a book that begins with its main character purchasing clockbugs from a con man. That book by this author concerns a man named Mole, who builds the title object to survive an impending nuclear holocaust. For 10 points, name this author of The Man Who Turned into a Stick and The Ark Sakura.
During the intermission in one of this author's plays, the actor playing the apartment superintendent is supposed to accost various theatregoers in the aisles and restrooms by handing them leaflets that justify his actions.
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