Question

To finance his literary career, this man worked as an editor for The Delineator, a women's magazine that displayed advertisements for its parent company's sewing patterns. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author who had previously written for the women's magazine Ev'ry Month. The murder of Grace Brown inspired a long novel by this author in which Clyde Griffiths kills Roberta Alden in a canoeing accident.
ANSWER: Theodore Dreiser
[10e] Other literary contributions to The Delineator include H.L. Mencken’s ghost-written articles about baby care, and early short stories by this author of The Wizard of Oz.
ANSWER: L. Frank Baum [or Lyman Frank Baum]
[10h] In Dreiser’s An American Tragedy, Clyde Griffiths does menial work at a Lycurgus factory that makes these objects. In Stephen Crane’s Maggie: a Girl of the Streets, Maggie works at a factory making these objects.
ANSWER: shirts [accept shirt collars; prompt on clothes or clothing or equivalents]
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2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo10/28/2023Y412.5075%50%0%
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU10/28/2023Y120.00100%100%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y313.3333%67%33%
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y717.1486%71%14%
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)10/28/2023Y220.00100%100%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central)10/28/2023Y320.00100%33%67%
2023 Penn Bowl (UK)10/28/2023Y516.00100%60%0%
2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC10/28/2023Y316.67100%67%0%

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