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 and murdering the actor 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 is founded by Hazel Motes in a novel by this author of The Violent Bear It Away. For 10 points, name this author of the novel Wise Blood who also wrote Southern Gothic stories like “Good Country People.” ■END■
ANSWER: Flannery O’Connor [or Mary Flannery O’Connor]
<American Literature>
= Average correct buzz position