A novel by this author, whose ninth chapter reads, “Because he missed it. He missed it completely,” is partially narrated by the sewing machine agent V. K. Ratliff. A character created by this author, who repeats “It won’t balance” about an object formed by the “Chuck Chuck Chuck” of an adze, has his broken leg cast in cement.A girl (10[1])impregnated (10[1])by the farmhand Lafe is scammed out of abortion-inducing medicine in a novel by this author, (10[1])who paired The Town and The Hamlet in a trilogy about the Snopes (10[1])family. (10[1])A man buys false teeth in a novel by this author in which Vardaman says, “My mother is a fish.” (10[2])Cash slowly builds (10[1])a coffin for his mother in a novel by this author set in Yoknapatawpha County. For 10 points, name this author who wrote about the Bundren family in As I Lay Dying. ■END■