Round 9: Tossup 15

In one story by this author, a woman who shouts “Jesus stab me in the heart!” is (10[1])later gored in the chest by a bull. (10[1])This author of “Greenleaf” also described a man “waiting like Saint Sebastian” (-5[1])while a woman puts on her new green and purple hat. That woman from a story by this author has a stroke after her son Julian scolds her for her racist (10[1])behavior on the bus. (10[1])The cat Pitty Sing causes an accident in a short story by this author in which the Grandmother is killed by the Misfit. (10[2])For 10 (10[1])points, name this Southern Gothic author of “Everything (-5[1])That Rises Must Converge” (10[1])and “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” (0[1])■END■

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