For 10 points, name this author of Lost in the Funhouse who wrote about Ebenezer Cooke in The Sot-Weed Factor.
The protagonist of one work by this author plays games like cow-poker and looking for electrical towers while traveling to Ocean City during Independence Day with his secret crush Magda. That story about Ambrose Mensch is the title work of a collection which opens by instructing readers to construct a Mobius strip saying "Once upon a time there was a story that began." The protagonist of another work by this author exchanges identities with his valet Bertrand Burton and is tutored by the shipwreck survivor and descendant of John Smith named (*) Henry Burlingame. The protagonist of that novel falls in love with the prostitute Joan Toast and writes the title satire after giving up on his epic about colonial Maryland. For 10 points, name this author of Lost in the Funhouse who wrote about Ebenezer Cooke in The Sot-Weed Factor.
The protagonist of one work by this author plays games like cow-poker and looking for electrical towers while traveling to Ocean City during Independence Day with his secret crush Magda.
John {Barth}