Question

The young protagonist is terrified by a stage version of one of this author’s novels at the start of a later novel, causing her adoptive mother to slap Flora for bringing her. This author is killed off in a chapter titled “[This author] is Dead!” from a novel that fictionalizes the Tichborne case. (15[1])A novel (15[1])by this author inspired a novel whose protagonist visits a Tennessee (15[1])aquarium (15[1])with his friend Maggot. Each entry in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet (-5[2])opens with an homage (15[1])to this author. (15[3])A novel by this author is referenced in the first line of (*) The Catcher in the Rye and inspired a novel about (10[1])the (10[1])Appalachian-born (-5[1])Damon Fields, which won the 2023 (10[2])Pulitzer for Barbara Kingsolver. (10[1]-5[1])Peter Carey’s (10[1])novel Jack Maggs is based (10[1])on an escaped convict created by this author (10[1])who becomes (10[1])an orphaned boy’s benefactor. For 10 points, what author created Abel Magwitch in Great (10[1])Expectations? (10[2])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Charles Dickens (The first sentence is from Sarah Waters’s novel Fingersmith, and the second is from Zadie Smith’s novel The Fraud. The Barbara Kingsolver novel is Demon Copperhead, inspired by David Copperfield.)
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