Question
While at a work camp, the houseboat-dwelling title character of a novel by this author meets a character who was arrested for “violating” a farmer’s watermelons named Gene Harrogate. This author of Suttree wrote a novel in which Carla Jean dies after losing a coin flip. In that novel by this author, Llewelyn Moss (“loo-well-en moss”) is tracked down by the bounty hunter Anton Chigurh (shih-GUR”). In another novel by this author, the seven -foot-tall Judge Holden and other members of the bloodthirsty Glanton gang take in a character only referred to as “the kid.”For 10 points, name this author of Westerns such as No Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian. ■END■
ANSWER: Cormac McCarthy [or Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr]
<Literature - American Literature>
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Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Saif Virani (UG) | Fordham | Rowan | 48 | 10 |
Will Hollister (DII) | Lehigh | NYU B | 51 | 10 |
Patrick Torre (DII) | Maryland | Rutgers | 67 | 10 |
Ivy Chen (DII) | Princeton | University of Delaware B | 70 | 10 |
Daniel Shannon (DII) | University of Delaware A | Swarthmore B | 76 | 10 |
Edward | Columbia B | NYU A | 79 | 10 |
Frank Paz (DII) | Swarthmore A | NYU C | 99 | 10 |