Question: Which author wrote the novel that the CBS series whose fourth episode is called outbreak was based on?

Context articles: Ex-Wife (Russian TV series)
List of Ever After High webisodes
Obsession: Dark Desires
Premiere (Farscape)
Naši i vaši
Gulf Playhouse
Under the Dome (TV series)
David W. Zucker
Outbreak (Under the Dome)
One for the Morning Glory

Ex-Wife, also known as Byvshaya zhena or Бывшая жена, is a 2013 Russian television series whose lead character, Natasha, played by Nelli Uvarova, works in a government department that seeks to collect unpaid alimony.
 The bailiffs of the office pursue deadbeat fathers (there's no example of a woman owing alimony) in a Russian city.
 In the first episode, Natasha quits a singing gig in order to join the department as an intern, and hopes to collect from her own ex-husband.
 Real-life tough guy (a mixed martial artist) Oleg Taktarov plays as Natasha's protective boss.
The "Ever After High" doll franchise has spawned a web series whose episodes were released on their website and YouTube.
 The web series is organized into chapters, each of which contains various shorts.
 The first few shorts were released on May 30, 2013.
 Some of the YouTube shorts have been compiled into longer episodes that are available to watch on Netflix, along with new episodes that are advertised as "Netflix Originals."
 Some of the episodes are longer, such as the episode "Thronecoming", which premiered on Nickelodeon on
Obsession: Dark Desires is a drama television series whose first episode aired on January 14, 2014.
"Premiere" launches the "Farscape" series.
 It was written by series creator Rockne S. O'Bannon and directed by Andrew Prowse.
 It is the only episode in the series whose opening credits lack Crichton's usual voiceover.
Naši i Vaši (English: Ours and Yours ) is a Croatian comedy TV series whose pilot episode aired in 2000 on HRT.
 The first season of the series had seven episodes, and the second and last season's 15 episodes counters.
Gulf Playhouse, also known as Gulf Playhouse: 1st Person and First Person Playhouse, was an American anthology series that aired on Friday nights from 1952–53 on NBC.
 Originally conceived as a standard live dramatic anthology series, it was later redeveloped as a summer replacements series whose anthology stories were now told as seen through the "eye" of the camera.
 The actors in each episode would talk to the camera as if it were a person, animal or object.
Under the Dome is an American science-fiction mystery drama television series.
 It premiered on CBS on June 24, 2013, and concluded on September 10, 2015.
 The series was developed by Brian K. Vaughan and based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King.
David W. Zucker is President of Television for Scott Free, and Executive Producer of the landmark series adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s classic “The Man in the High Castle” for Amazon, esteemed Civil War medical drama “Mercy Street” on PBS, the forthcoming first season of the Amazon half-hour action-comedy starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as “Jean-Claude Van Johnson,” the AMC anthological psychological thriller “The Terror,” “The Good Fight," the widely acclaimed CBS all-access spin-off of “The Good Wife,” and “Killing Reagan,” the fourth in the acclaimed National Geographic channel series of “Killing” telefilms (which include “Killing Jesus” and “Killing Kennedy,” both Emmy-nominated, plus the docudrama “Killing Lincoln”).
 During his tenure, Scott Free has produced a steady stream of highly acclaimed programs including the Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated, Peabody-winning drama, “The Good Wife,” which recently concluded its 7th and final season on CBS, as well as “Numb3rs,” which ran for six successful seasons on the same network.
 Notable long form programs include “Klondike” for Discovery, the Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated “The Pillars of the Earth” for Starz, “World Without End” for Reelz, Emmy-nominated “Into the Storm” for HBO, Emmy-nominated “The Andromeda Strain” and “Coma” for A&E, the Golden Globe-nominated “The Company” at TNT and a feature-length digital series for X-Box/Microsoft, “Halo: Nightfall.”
 Acclaimed non-fiction programs include “Crimes of the Century” and the Emmy-winning documentary special “Gettysburg” for History Channel.
 Previously, Zucker worked as a Story Editor on the CBS series, Judging Amy, wrote pilot scripts for CBS and ABC, as well as various stage plays, and served as VP of Drama Series for CBS in addition to VP of Drama Series & Current Programs at Warner Bros.
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"Outbreak" is the fourth episode of the CBS drama "Under the Dome."
 The episode originally aired on July 15, 2013.
One For the Morning Glory is a fantasy novel by John Barnes, published 1996.
 It is a fairy tale where the characters know that they are in a fairy tale.
 The novel has a humorous tone similar to William Goldman's "The Princess Bride" — quite different from Barnes' usual science fiction.
 It forms the second part of a three book series whose first and third parts are not yet written.