In a 2017 novel, a laconic immigrant of this nationality makes his way across the American West while inexplicably growing in size. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this nationality of a picaresque giant in Hernán Díaz’s novel In the Distance. The bounty hunter Homer T. Hatch arrives to capture a harmonica-playing farmhand of this nationality in a book the author called a “short novel.”
ANSWER: Swedish [or Swedish-American; or Swedes; or svenskar] (The short novel is Noon Wine by Katherine Anne Porter.)
[10e] The Swedish-American Berglund family works a farm in Nebraska in O Pioneers!, one of this author’s novels about immigrant families on the Great Plains.
ANSWER: Willa Cather [or Willa Sibert Cather; or Wilella Sibert Cather]
[10m] This author wrote that every publisher rejected his story “A Country Full of Swedes” for being “a denial of man's nobility.” This author made the photobook You Have Seen Their Faces with his wife, Margaret Bourke-White.
ANSWER: Erskine Caldwell [or Erskine Preston Caldwell]
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