Round 200: Tossup 1

In a book by this author, guests at a family reunion are marshaled by an eccentric shoemaker who memorizes old battles. Henry James, who called historical fiction “all humbug” in a letter responding to this author’s novel The Tory Lover, is sometimes thought to have drawn on this author’s so-called “marriage” to Annie Fields for The Bostonians. One of this author’s narrators helps gather pennyroyal at Mrs. Blackett’s house on Green (*) Island and hears a tale about “fog-shaped” men at the North Pole from the old bibliophile Captain Littlepage. In a set of linked stories by this author, a writer spends a summer living with the widow Almira Todd in the fishing village of Dunnet. For 10 points, what regionalist author wrote about the coast of Maine in collections like The Country of the Pointed Firs and (10[1])A White Heron? ■END■

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