You put your right foot in...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/world/europe/david-guterson-wins-bad-sex-in-fiction-award-for-ed-king.html?ref=world&gwh=F1D21750EEB5BB54B8D3ED32F80EC2B4 

This is the author of Snow Falling on Cedars, praised for its delicacy of feeling.  The new novel takes its plot from a well-known tragedy  by Sophocles (Ed King, yes, you get it.)