In Jonathan Carroll's 'The Land of Laughs', what is the name of the fictional author?

In Jonathan Carroll's The Land of Laughs, the fictional author is Marshall France.

Marshall France is a deceased writer of unusual children's books whose work fascinates Thomas Abbey, the novel's protagonist. Thomas meets fellow France enthusiast Saxony Gardner, and the two travel to the fictional town of Galen, Missouri, hoping to meet France's daughter, Anna, and obtain permission to write his biography.

The mystery deepens because Galen seems to resemble the world of France's books. Characters and places from the stories appear to exist there, raising the unsettling possibility that France's writing created the town—or that he described a reality already shaped by magic. Thomas's own biographical writing begins to affect events as well.

The other options are associated with the plot but are not the author: Thomas Abbey is the biographer, Saxony Gardner is his companion, and Anna France is the author's daughter. The novel was Jonathan Carroll's first, published by Viking Press in 1980.