Michael Ondaatje

publication date: Saturday, November 17, 2007 (part of Round XXXII)

clue: One must be patient to come through this English novelist's oeuvre.

explanation: Ondaatje wrote The English Patient and Coming Through Slaughter. more…

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Justin Woods, Joanna Woods, Matthew Preston, Denise Sawicki, Mike Rothstein, Steve Dunn, Amy Austin, Aaron Shurtleff, Dave Mitzman, Elliot Farney, Tony Peters, Walter Chesser, Shawn Brandt, Greg Bair, Jim Kraus, Allison Bair, Jason Evans, Sam Boyarsky, and Rhonda Woods

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