Question

In a novel by this author, the protagonist runs away to a carnival with Idabel Thompkins where he rejects the advances of a woman with dwarfism on a ferris wheel. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author who wrote a true crime novel about the Clutter family’s murder in Kansas, In Cold Blood. This author also wrote a novella depicting the socialite Holly Golightly.
ANSWER: Truman Capote (The novella is Breakfast at Tiffany’s.)
[10h] In this other Truman Capote novel, Joel Knox travels from New Orleans to Skully’s Landing where he meets his quadriplegic father who abandoned him at birth.
ANSWER: Other Voices, Other Rooms
[10e] This author used Truman Capote as the inspiration for the character Dill in her novel To Kill A Mockingbird.
ANSWER: Harper Lee [or Nelle Harper Lee]
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2024 ACF Fall at Ohio StatefallY817.50100%75%0%
2024 ACF Fall at WashingtonfallY616.67100%67%0%
2024 ACF Fall at GeorgiafallY1218.33100%83%0%
2024 ACF Fall at North CarolinafallY915.5689%67%0%
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont CollegesfallY518.00100%80%0%
2024 ACF Fall at RutgersfallY820.00100%100%0%
2024 ACF Fall at IllinoisfallY918.89100%89%0%

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Binghamton AESF1001020
SyracuseBinghamton B1001020
Cornell ARIT C1001020
Cornell CCornell F001010
Cornell ECornell B1001020
Cornell DCornell G001010
RIT BPenn State001010
RIT AU of Rochester A001010
U of Rochester BBinghamton C1001020