Question

A novel by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer titled in reference to this older novel follows the engineer Homer Atkins and has come to name a type of obnoxious and ignorant foreign visitor. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this novel in which the narrator is left by his mistress Phuong for a man he suspects is working for the CIA, the idealist Alden Pyle.
ANSWER: The Quiet American (The Burdick and Lederer novel is The Ugly American.)
[10e] This novelist set The Quiet American in Vietnam. This British author’s other novels set abroad include Our Man in Havana and The Power and The Glory.
ANSWER: Graham Greene [or Henry Graham Greene]
[10m] The narrator of The Quiet American, Thomas Fowler, holds this profession. William Boot travels to the fictional East African country of Ishmaelia as a member of this profession in a novel by Evelyn Waugh.
ANSWER: journalist [or reporter or member of the press or a foreign correspondent; accept newspaper writer; prompt on writer] (Waugh’s novel is Scoop.)
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