The protagonist of this novel answers his own question of “What do women want?” with the answer, “They eat green salad and drink human blood.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this novel whose protagonist composes letters to people such as Friedrich Nietzsche and Dwight Eisenhower after his divorce from his second wife, Mady, who left him for his friend Valentine Gersbach.
ANSWER: Herzog
[10m] Saul Bellow, who partly set Herzog in this city, opened his novel The Adventures of Augie March with the line, “I am an American, [this city] born.” Another author declared of this city, “They tell me you are wicked and I believe them.”
ANSWER: Chicago
[10e] This author called Chicago “Hog Butcher for the World” in his poem titled after the city.
ANSWER: Carl Sandburg [or Carl August Sandburg]
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