Wisconsin governor George Peck created a popular series of books about his character Hennery Peck, who is described as this type of person. For 10 points each:
[10h] Thomas Bailey Aldrich’s autobiographical novel titled for “The Story of” what type of character created a 19th-century craze for their namesake genre of children’s literature?
ANSWER: bad boys [accept “bad boy” literature; accept The Story of a Bad Boy; accept Peck’s Bad Boy]
[10e] The genre of “bad boy” literature inspired this Mark Twain character, who discovers the hiding place of Injun Joe while trapped in a cave with his crush Becky Thatcher.
ANSWER: Tom Sawyer [or Tom Sawyer; accept The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]
[10m] This author wrote positive reviews of many “bad boy” novels, including The Story of a Bad Boy and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, for the Atlantic Monthly, which he edited during the 1870s. This author was nicknamed the “Dean of American Letters” for his prominence.
ANSWER: William Dean Howells
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