The title character of a short story by this author suggests, “maybe it was good to smell your own stink,” in a passage in which he slowly crushes an empty beer can. At the end (-5[1])of a story by this author, the narrator is reminded of his daughter’s death from polio as he watches (-5[1])a glass of Scotch and (10[1])milk shake “like the very cup (-5[1])of trembling” (15[1])on top of (-5[1])a (0[1])piano. (15[1]-5[2])After reading about (15[1])his arrest (10[2]-5[1])in the newspaper, (10[2])an (10[1])unnamed math (10[1])teacher takes (10[1])in his (*) heroin-addicted brother and watches him play (-5[1])jazz at a (10[1])nightclub in a story that this (10[1])author included in the collection (10[1])Going (10[1])to Meet (10[3]-5[1])the (10[1])Man. A series of religious visions (10[2])on a (10[1]-5[1])threshing-floor opens the final section of (10[1])a (10[3])novel (10[1])by this (10[1])author set (10[1])on the 14th (10[1])birthday of a preacher’s son named John Grimes. (10[1])For 10 points, name this author of “Sonny’s (10[1])Blues” and Go Tell It on the (10[1])Mountain. ■END■ (10[2])