novelist of ideas
philosophical novelist
comedic satirist
cautionary moralist
diagnostician
prophetic essayist
post-modern thinker
"existentialist"
Southern gentleman
ex-suicide
wayfarer-pilgrim
Martian castaway
Homo symbolificus
triadic scientist
Cenophythagorean
semiotician
apocalyptic cultural critic
Christian apologist
Kierkegaardian Roman Catholic
None of the above/
all of the above