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