Question

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 of trembling” (15[1])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 opens the final section of a novel (10[1])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 (10[1])Blues” and Go Tell It on the Mountain. ■END■

ANSWER: James Baldwin [or James Arthur Baldwin]
<HG, American Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jack ObermanSouth Carolina ANorth Carolina B6615
Ivan StanisavljevicDukeJames Madison A12610
Dominik MystkowskiNC StateSouth Carolina B14910

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2023 ARCADIA at DukeEmory, Duke, YaleY3100%33%0%113.67
2023 ARCADIA at EmoryEmory, Duke, YaleY3100%33%33%123.33
2023 ARCADIA at ImperialImperialY5100%0%0%119.40
2023 ARCADIA OnlineMaryland, OnlineY3100%33%0%116.67
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio StateOhio State, TexasY3100%0%0%121.33
2023 ARCADIA at TexasOhio State, TexasY3100%33%33%129.33