Packet 7: Tossup 13

In a memoir from this country, the author describes her affair with Robert Mitchum and how her mother tried to disinherit her brother on her deathbed. In a loose memoir from this country, the author wins an essay contest on his hometown in the third and nicest of his prison stays. The author’s family leaves the US for this country, where he is hospitalized with typhoid, (15[1])in a memoir that spawned the sequels (*) ’Tis and Teacher Man. (10[6]-5[1])An author (10[1])from this (10[1])country (10[1])wrote the play The Quare Fellow (10[1])and a memoir (10[3])of (10[1])his time (10[1])in a youth prison titled Borstal (10[1])Boy. (10[3]-5[3])An autobiographical (10[1])character from this country writes his intention (-5[1])to forge “the uncreated conscience (10[1])of my race.” (10[4])An American-born author from this country wrote Angela’s Ashes. (-5[1])For (-5[1])10 points, (10[2])an author from what country created the alter ego Stephen Dedalus? (10[2])■END■ (10[13])

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