A play by this author opens after the ex-convict Black prevents the professor White from jumping in front of a train.
A play by this author opens after the ex-convict Black prevents the professor White from jumping in front of a train. This author of The Sunset Limited created a pair of characters who are disturbed by the discovery of the charred remains of an infant baby on a fire spit. At the end of a novel by this author, a hairless, albino giant who preaches that "war is god" fiddles maniacally in a saloon. The "kid" joins Judge Holden and the scalp hunting Glanton Gang in that novel by this author, who also wrote a novel about a young boy and his father's gloomy post-apocalyptic trip along the title pathway. For 10 points, name this American author of Blood Meridian and The Road. 
A play by this author opens after the ex-convict Black prevents the professor White from jumping in front of a train.
Cormac McCarthy