For ten points, name this author of Golden Gate and A Suitable Boy.
This author collaborated with Alex Roth on the opera Arion and the Dolphins and described his hitchhiking journey from Tibet to his hometown in From Heaven Lake. In one of his works, he parallels his Uncle, a dentist who studied in Germany named Shanti, with his aunt, a Jew named Henny whose parents were sent to a death camp. In another work, Julia is the beloved of the musician in the Maggiore Quartet, Michael Holmes. In addition to [?] Two Lives and An Equal Music, this author wrote about an iguana named Arnold Schwarzenegger and a man who used to work for Datatronics written in Pushkin sonnets, but he is best known for writing about Abdus Salam in a massive work featuring the Khans and the Mehras. For ten points, name this author of Golden Gate and A Suitable Boy.
This author collaborated with Alex Roth on the opera Arion and the Dolphins and described his hitchhiking journey from Tibet to his hometown in From Heaven Lake.
Vikram {Seth}