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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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Alabama AAuburn B1001020
Auburn CGeorgia A1001020
BelmontEmory Oxford001010
FurmanMississippi State A1001020
FurmanMississippi State A1001020
FurmanMississippi State A1001020
FurmanMississippi State A1001020
FurmanMississippi State A1001020
FurmanMississippi State A1001020
FurmanMississippi State A1001020
FurmanMississippi State A1001020
Georgia Tech AClemson A1001020
Georgia Tech BGeorgia Tech E1001020
Georgia Tech CEmory Oxford001010
South Carolina BGeorgia Tech D1001020
South Carolina AClemson B1001020
Auburn ATennessee B1001020
Vanderbilt AVanderbilt B1001020