For 10 points, name this author of Love in the Ruins, The Second Coming, and The Moviegoer.
In one of this author's novels, a former doctor now working as an assistant coroner writes a mysterious notebook in which he claims to be a pornographer. That book's protagonist is named in tribute to the existentialist author of Irrational Man, which influenced this author's philosophy. In addition to that story in which rich car salesman Chandler Vaught gives each of his children a hundred thousand dollars, The Last Gentleman, this author wrote about the psychic Miss Marva, who sells "astrological real estate" to some black radicals who occupy Paradise Estates. That novel is about the inventor of the lapsometer and is subtitled "The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World." In another of his novels, a breakup with Walter Wade causes Kate to attempt suicide, but a trip to Chicago with Binx Bolling cheers her up. For 10 points, name this author of Love in the Ruins, The Second Coming, and The Moviegoer.
In one of this author's novels, a former doctor now working as an assistant coroner writes a mysterious notebook in which he claims to be a pornographer.
Walker Percy