A character created by this author is said to have “smiled not unkindly, then chastely retreated” to both seduce and abandon several men. Another of his characters delivers a eulogy that begins by reflecting “when a man has been running free all day, what’s the natural thing for him to do? Why, to come home” in a story that opens with the line “I do not think that we ever knew his real name.” In another of this man's stories, characters sing a hymn with the refrain (*) “I’m proud to live in the service of the Lord, and I’m bound to die in His army” and listen to a version of the Iliad starring “Ash-Heels.” In that story by this man, the Duchess and Piney Woods freeze to death while Mother Shipton (10[1])and the gambler John Oakhurst commit suicide. For 10 points, name this author of “Tennessee's Partner” and “The Outcasts of Poker Flat.” ■END■