Round 7: Tossup 1

At the end of a novel by this author, a man tells a minister that it “seems sometimes as if it was a hole opened for me, and I crept out of it.” In a novel by this author, a dinner guest jokes that the novel Tears, Idle Tears should be called Slop, Silly Slop (-5[1])before an ex-colonel tells how Jim Millon died taking a bullet for him. This author defined a style as “truthful treatment (-5[1])of material” in his influential “Editor’s Study” column. This author introduced the journalist Bartley Hubbard in a novel that (10[2])broke ground by following (10[1])a divorce. (10[1])This champion of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s dialect poems (10[1])created a man who accidentally burns (-5[1])down his new house in (-5[1])Back Bay. This novelist’s (10[1])polemics for realism as editor of The Atlantic Monthly made (10[1])him known (10[1])as the “Dean of (10[1])American (10[2])Letters.” (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])what author wrote The Rise of Silas Lapham? ■END■ (10[4]0[5])

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