Question
This author was fictionalized as Tobias Oates in a book that imagines him taking the story for one of his novels from a convict-turned-wealthy brickmaker. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author whose work inspired Peter Carey’s novel Jack Maggs. The opening line of The Catcher in the Rye refers to “all that David Copperfield kind of crap,” referencing a novel by this author.
ANSWER: Charles Dickens [or Charles John Huffam Dickens]
[10m] A Pulitzer-winning 2022 novel by this author retells David Copperfield in impoverished Appalachia. The Price family travels to the Congo on a mission trip in another novel by this author.
ANSWER: Barbara Kingsolver [or Barbara Ellen Kingsolver] (The novels are Demon Copperhead and The Poisonwood Bible.)
[10h] A writing club updates Great Expectations to the more realistic Measured Expectations in this 2015 novel. In this novel, Bonbon tries to reintroduce slavery and segregation to the disincorporated town of Dickens.
ANSWER: The Sellout (by Paul Beatty)
<HG, American Literature>
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