After writing The Greenlanders, she used Zebulon County, Iowa as the setting for a novel inspired by King Lear, in which Larry Cook bequeaths his farm to his three daughters, Rose, Caroline, and Ginny.
The title character of one of this author's novels becomes an abolitionist and moves to Bleeding Kansas with her husband Thomas Newton, whose murder by border ruffians inspires her to disguise herself as a man and track down his killers. In another of this author's novels, Dr. Lionel Gift conspires with Arlen Martin on a scheme to mine gold in the last virgin cloud forest in Costa Rica, which is opposed by Chairman X. This author of The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton wrote a novel which follows the life of Margret (*) Asgeirsdottir from birth to death, as well as an academic farce which opens by describing an experiment conducted on a 700-pound pig named Earl Butz. After writing The Greenlanders, she used Zebulon County, Iowa as the setting for a novel inspired by King Lear, in which Larry Cook bequeaths his farm to his three daughters, Rose, Caroline, and Ginny. For 10 points, name this American author of Moo and A Thousand Acres.
The title character of one of this author's novels becomes an abolitionist and moves to Bleeding Kansas with her husband Thomas Newton, whose murder by border ruffians inspires her to disguise herself as a man and track down his killers.
Jane Smiley