A broadcaster launched a website called “Why Bother With [This Author]?” after several publishers rejected a pseudonymously submitted chapter from this author’s The Eye of the Storm. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Nobel Prize–winning author who described the disappearance of the title German explorer in a 1957 novel.
ANSWER: Patrick White
[10e] Patrick White is often hailed as the “Greatest Unread Novelist” of this country, whose other authors include Miles Franklin. White set his aforementioned novel Voss in this country's Outback.
ANSWER: Australia
[10m] White’s novel The Vivisector centers on a character with this job named Hurtle Duffield. Charles Strickland leaves his family to pursue this job in Tahiti in W. Somerset Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence.
ANSWER: artist [or painter]
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