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 
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.