In a story from this collection, a woman hidden by bedclothes hisses, “You never went to school. You never came and you never went. You never were anything – only here.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Marion earns points for the Campfire Girls by bringing flowers to an Old Ladies’ Home in what collection’s hallucinatory story “A Visit of Charity”? This 1941 debut collection fictionalizes Fats Waller in “Powerhouse.”
ANSWER: A Curtain of Green
[10e] A Curtain of Green was the first collection by this Mississippian author, who wrote “Why I Live At the P.O.” and “A Worn Path.”
ANSWER: Eudora Welty
[10m] Surreal elements from another Curtain story titled for one of these people named R.J. Bowman includes a road that abruptly ends in a ravine. In another story, a man posing as one of these people takes whiskey and pornographic cards out of a hollow bible.
ANSWER: traveling salesman [or bible salesman; accept “Death of a Traveling Salesman”] (The other story is “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor).
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