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 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[3])For 10 points, 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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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Halle Friedmanmeet the new weird, same as the old weirdColumbia B13510
Caroline Maonats is supposed to mean you all have gone softUG Championship Players (and Mazin)13510
Rahul KeyalWatching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People AgainOlmo (Bonus) Bagelry13510

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