In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.

Edmund Whites The Beautiful Room is Empty takes its name from a letter this man wrote to Milena Jesenska. One of his stories discusses the mythic belief in the Chinese empire in small towns, The Great Wall of China, while another concerns a man who dies in the Black Forest but is left on Earth by the pilot of his death ship, The Hunter Gracchus. More famous are a story where an ape finds a way out onto the variety stage and one where an unnamed officer shows an explorer a Harrow that cuts the name of a criminals crime into his skin, and then must lie in it himself. FTP, name this author of Report to an Academy and In the Penal Colony, as well as The Trial.
Literature