Possible Clues:

• 'The Name of the Rose' author
• His ''Foucault's Pendulum'' was published in '88
• 'The Name of the Rose' writer
• Author of 'Foucault's Pendulum'
• Writer's boss takes to Cree dancing
• Firm brown digit set before novelist
• 'Baudolino' author
• 'Serendipities: Language and Lunacy' author