Question

In a novel by this author, a corpse falls out of a casket onto a wreath, causing a wire to pull out a wax stopper filling a bullet hole in its head. Gene serves liquor during a funeral held at a dance hall in a novel by this author. This author described the gangster Red’s “jazz-style” funeral in a novel in which the bootlegger Lee Goodwin is represented at a murder trial by the lawyer Horace Benbow. In a novel by this author, a man buys a set of (*) false teeth and a (-5[1])gramophone, and then marries a woman from whom he had borrowed some spades. A dead woman created by this author is put into her wedding dress and a mosquito-net veil before being placed backwards into a coffin made “on the bevel” by Cash. (10[2])For 10 points, what author who created Temple Drake in Sanctuary wrote about the burial of Addie Bundren in As I Lay Dying? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: William (Cuthbert) Faulkner
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Caleb KendrickMaryland ARutgers Diaspora92-5
Jim FanFan-tastic Negs and Where to Find ThemGlass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery13510
Jonathan MaginMaryland B+The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Negs13510
Collin AceRutgers DiasporaMaryland A15910

Summary

2023 BHSU @ Maryland03/11/2023Y3100%0%33%143.00
2023 BHSU @ Berkeley03/18/2023Y3100%0%67%144.00
2023 BHSU @ Yale04/08/2023Y3100%0%0%135.00
2023 BHSU Online04/15/2023Y4100%0%50%126.50
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield04/15/2023Y2100%0%0%114.50
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo04/15/2023Y3100%0%33%126.67