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. In a novel by this author, a man buys a set of false teeth and a gramophone, and then marries a woman (15[1])from whom (15[1])he had borrowed some spades. This author described the gangster Red’s “jazz-style” funeral (15[1])in a novel (15[1])in which the bootlegger Lee Goodwin is represented at a murder trial by the lawyer (*) Horace Benbow. 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[1])For 10 points, (10[1])what author who created Temple Drake in Sanctuary wrote about the burial of Addie Bundren in As I Lay Dying? ■END■

ANSWER: William (Cuthbert) Faulkner
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Shourjo GanguliOSUMojo Shojo7015
John LawrenceAmartya Senpai Notice MeEpic Games7215
Max BrodskyIllinois A+Michigan8515
Ned TagtmeierChicago AWUSTL8815
JinAh KimMaryland B-Chicago B13510
Andrew SalijNorthwesternPurdue13810

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