Question

In a novel by this author, a landlady in love with the protagonist learns that he walks several miles each day with stones and glass in his shoes and barbed wire around his chest. In another novel by this author, the protagonist listens to “the Voice” and drowns the boy Bishop while baptizing him. The deranged acts of a man in a novel by this author include stealing a shriveled mummy from a museum (10[1])and murdering the actor (10[1])who plays Gonga the Gorilla. In one of this author’s novels, Mason tries to turn his great-nephew Francis Marion Tarwater into a prophet. The Church Without Christ (10[1])is founded by Hazel Motes in a novel (10[2])by this author of The Violent Bear It Away. (10[1])For 10 points, name this author of the novel Wise Blood who also wrote Southern Gothic (10[1])stories like “Good Country (-5[1])People.” ■END■ (10[5]0[3])

ANSWER: Flannery O’Connor [or Mary Flannery O’Connor]
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Summary

2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska01/27/2024Y6100%0%0%125.83
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial01/27/2024Y875%0%13%116.00

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Omer KeskinOxford ACambridge A7310
Deepak MuthyalaTexas A&M AClaremont A7710
Enoch YuenImperial AImperial B10410
Dwight SolanoTexas A&M BSorbonne11210
Ben Russell JonesEdinburghDurham A11210
Thomas HartWarwickCambridge B12110
Isaac OlsonUW AIowa B13710
Andrew FisherSheffieldOxford B141-5
Jisoon YooTexas AAppalachian State14310
Russell NipUBC AIowa A14310
Aswath KaraiMichigan State ARice A14310
Aisling SkeetDurham BKCL1430
Ian DewanKielOxford C1430
Haike LiuKCLDurham B1430
Eliza DeanOxford BSheffield14310
Kevin FlanaganBristolCambridge C14310