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The title character of a short story by this author suggests, “maybe it was good to smell your own stink,” in a passage in which he slowly crushes an empty beer can. At the end of a story by this author, the narrator is reminded of his daughter’s death from polio as he watches a glass of Scotch and milk shake “like the very cup (15[1])of trembling” on top of a piano. After reading about his arrest in the newspaper, an unnamed math teacher takes in his (*) heroin-addicted brother and watches him play jazz at a nightclub in a story that this author included in the collection Going to Meet the Man. A series of religious visions on a threshing-floor (10[1])opens the final section of a novel by this author set on the 14th birthday of a preacher’s son named John Grimes. For 10 points, name this author of “Sonny’s Blues” and Go Tell It on the Mountain. (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: James Baldwin [or James Arthur Baldwin]
<HG, American Literature>
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