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 (10[1])by this author, (10[1])Llewelyn Moss (“loo-well-en moss”) is tracked down by the bounty hunter Anton Chigurh (shih-GUR”). In another novel by (10[1])this author, the (10[1])seven -foot-tall Judge Holden and other (10[1])members of the (10[1])bloodthirsty Glanton gang take in a character only referred to as “the kid.”For 10 points, name this author of Westerns (10[1])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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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Saif Virani (UG)FordhamRowan4810
Will Hollister (DII)LehighNYU B5110
Patrick Torre (DII)MarylandRutgers6710
Ivy Chen (DII)PrincetonUniversity of Delaware B7010
Daniel Shannon (DII)University of Delaware ASwarthmore B7610
EdwardColumbia BNYU A7910
Frank Paz (DII)Swarthmore ANYU C9910

Summary

2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers)10/14/2023Y7100%0%0%70.00