To finance his literary career, this man worked as an editor for The Delineator, a women's magazine that displayed advertisements for its parent company's sewing patterns. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author who had previously written for the women's magazine Ev'ry Month. The murder of Grace Brown inspired a long novel by this author in which Clyde Griffiths kills Roberta Alden in a canoeing accident.
ANSWER: Theodore Dreiser
[10e] Other literary contributions to The Delineator include H.L. Mencken’s ghost-written articles about baby care, and early short stories by this author of The Wizard of Oz.
ANSWER: L. Frank Baum [or Lyman Frank Baum]
[10h] In Dreiser’s An American Tragedy, Clyde Griffiths does menial work at a Lycurgus factory that makes these objects. In Stephen Crane’s Maggie: a Girl of the Streets, Maggie works at a factory making these objects.
ANSWER: shirts [accept shirt collars; prompt on clothes or clothing or equivalents]
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