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” 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 (10[1])jazz at a nightclub in a story that this author included (10[1])in the collection Going to Meet the Man. (10[1])A series of religious visions on a threshing-floor opens the final section of a novel by this author set on the 14th birthday of a preacher’s son named John Grimes. (10[1])For 10 points, name this author of “Sonny’s Blues” (10[1])and Go Tell It on the Mountain. ■END■