This man called himself a “lonely monk walking in rain with a leaky umbrella,” according to an interviewer who completely missed that the expression was a pun roughly meaning “I hold nothing sacred.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this guerrilla leader whose autobiography had earlier been printed in a book by that interviewer, journalist Edgar Snow, the same year this man allied with his rival in the Second United Front.
ANSWER: Mao Zedong [or Chairman Mao; or Mao Tse-Tung]
[10h] This European author misrepresented large parts of his August 1965 interview with Mao in the first of a series of autobiographies that includes Lazarus. In 1934, this author flew over the Rub’ al Khali and claimed to have photographed the capital of the Queen of Sheba.
ANSWER: (Georges) André Malraux
[10e] This author was accused of being a fellow traveler for Mao after writing The Long March, a report of her six-week trip to China in 1955 with her life partner Jean-Paul Sartre.
ANSWER: Simone (Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand) de Beauvoir
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