Round 19: Tossup 6

An author with this first name wrote and narrated Louis Massiah films like The Bombing of Osage Avenue. In a story by an author with this first name, a group of kids are shocked by a 1,000-dollar toy boat when “the only woman on the block with no first name” takes them to FAO (“F-A-O”) Schwartz. The word “rememory” was coined by an author (10[1])with this first name (10[1])who edited Muhammad (10[1])Ali’s memoir The Greatest and Gayl Jones’s novel Corregidora. (10[2])The collection Gorilla, My Love (10[1])is by (10[1])an author (10[1])with this (10[1])first (10[1])name (-5[1])and a surname (10[1])taken from a West African kingdom. An author with this (10[1])first name (10[1])used the black and white figures met by Arthur Gordon Pym as an example of the trope of “Africanism” in Playing in the Dark (10[1])and (10[1])wrote a novel dedicated to “Sixty Million and (10[1])more.” (10[1])For 10 points, give this first name of the novelist of Tar Baby (10[1])and (10[3])Beloved. ■END■ (10[3])

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