Round 10: Tossup 8

J. Michael Lennon’s biography of this author discusses an event during which this author was told to fold a paper “five ways and put it where the moon don’t shine.” A debate between this author and a panel including Diana Trilling and Germaine Greer (15[1])is depicted in the documentary Town Bloody Hall. After being mocked as a “prisoner of the virility cult” in Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics, this author responded with The Prisoner of Sex. This author was told that “once again, (*) words have failed” him after punching Gore Vidal. This author was supposedly told that he was not as good as Dostoyevsky at a party to promote his mayoral campaign, leading him to use a penknife to stab his wife Adele Morales. For 10 points, name this author of The Executioner’s Song and The Naked and the Dead. ■END■

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