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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