For 10 points, name this American author of short stories such as "Revelation" and "Everything That Rises Must Converge."
One of this author's short stories ends with its protagonist seeing a vision of souls ascending to heaven on a purple streak of light after shouting "Who do you think you are?" at God while hosing down some hogs. That story by this author begins in a doctor's waiting room, where an acne-ridden Wellesley student throws her book Human Development at the protagonist and tells her "Go back to hell where you came from, you old wart hog." In addition to writing that story about Ruby Turpin's title epiphany, this author wrote a story in which a middle-aged white woman attempts to give a black child a penny, only for that child's mother to knock her to the ground with her pocketbook. That story takes place on a bus, and ends with Julian's mother crumpling to the ground. For 10 points, name this American author of short stories such as "Revelation" and "Everything That Rises Must Converge."
One of this author's short stories ends with its protagonist seeing a vision of souls ascending to heaven on a purple streak of light after shouting "Who do you think you are?"
Flannery O'Connor