This author’s short stories include one in which the main character is run over the six o’clock bus after performing a suggestive dance at a talent show and another which details the relationship between a widow and a young girl of the same name. In an early nonfiction work by this author, he finds a brown paper bag of anti-communists pamphlets in his hotel room; that work details the performance of a George Gershwin opera in the USSR and is titled for nine of Zeus' daughters being listened to. In one novel by this author, a teenage narrator searches for his now-disabled father, who he later finds out was shot by a "queer lady" he sees on a balcony. In another novel by this author, a half-Native-American character has a recurring dream of a bird taking him away to paradise, while in another, the character of Mr. Yunioshi photographs African masks. Alec Guinness portrays a blind butler in a motion picture that features this novelist, Murder by Death. For ten points, name this author who penned Other Voices, Other Rooms, In Cold Blood, and Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
This author’s short stories include one in which the main character is run over the six o’clock bus after performing a suggestive dance at a talent show and another which details the relationship between a widow and a young girl of the same name. In an early nonfiction work by this author, he finds a brown paper bag of anti-communists pamphlets in his hotel room; that work details the performance of a George Gershwin opera in the USSR and is titled for nine of Zeus' daughters being listened to. In one novel by this author, a teenage narrator searches for his now-disabled father, who he later finds out was shot by a "queer lady" he sees on a balcony. In another novel by this author, a half-Native-American character has a recurring dream of a bird taking him away to paradise, while in another, the character of Mr. Yunioshi photographs African masks. Alec Guinness portrays a blind butler in a motion picture that features this novelist, Murder by Death. For ten points, name this author who penned Other Voices, Other Rooms, In Cold Blood, and Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
This author’s short stories include one in which the main character is run over the six o’clock bus after performing a suggestive dance at a talent show and another which details the relationship between a widow and a young girl of the same name.