Round 6: 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, in a memoir that spawned the sequels (*) ’Tis and Teacher Man. (10[1])An author from this (10[1])country wrote the play The Quare Fellow and a memoir of his time in a youth prison titled Borstal Boy. (-5[1])An autobiographical character from this country writes his intention to forge “the uncreated conscience of my race.” (10[1])An American-born author from this country wrote Angela’s Ashes. For 10 points, an author from what country created the alter ego Stephen Dedalus? ■END■ (10[1])

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