Question
An author with this surname wrote a novel split into a novel-within-a-novel, a diary, a memoir, and an autobiography surrounding the tycoon Andrew Bevel. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this surname of the author of Trust, a 2023 joint winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. A Mojave poet with this surname won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry with her collection Postcolonial Love Poem.
ANSWER: Diaz [accept Natalie Diaz; accept Hernan Diaz]
[10m] The Argentine author Hernan Diaz moved to this US city, where he set Trust. In a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, Oskar tries to find people with the surname Black in this city after his father’s death.
ANSWER: New York City [or NYC] (The novel is Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.)
[10e] Hernan Diaz’s novel Trust is structured as a novel of this type. In 2005, Marilynne Robinson won the Pulitzer Prize for Gilead, a novel of this type that is told through documents like letters.
ANSWER: epistolary novels
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 89% | 56% | 33% |
Data
| Princeton A | Bard A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Rutgers B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cornell C | Princeton B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| NYU A | Columbia C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn A | Haverford | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers A | NYU B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Penn B | Yale A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yale B | Rowan A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale C | Vassar | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |