For 10 points, identify this author of Group Portrait with Lady and Billiards at Half-Past Nine.
One of this man's novels centers around the Tolm family, which is overwhelmed by the titular phenomenon, while in the title character of another work is a maid who gets mixed up with a case involving Ludwig Gotten, and shoots Werner Totges after he asks "how about a bang?" In addition to The Safety Net and The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, he described a character who befriends Rahel, falls in love with Boris, and bears the child Lev, while various members of the Faehmel family reconcile in September 1958 as Robert routinely plays the title game in another novel. For 10 points, identify this author of Group Portrait with Lady and Billiards at Half-Past Nine.
One of this man's novels centers around the Tolm family, which is overwhelmed by the titular phenomenon, while in the title character of another work is a maid who gets mixed up with a case involving Ludwig Gotten, and shoots Werner Totges after he asks "how about a bang?"
Heinrich {Boll}