One character created by this author meets a schoolboy who hides his journal in a tree trunk and the schoolboy's teacher, Miss McGeeney, while taking a tour of the interior of the Trojan horse.  
One character created by this author meets a schoolboy who hides his journal in a tree trunk and the schoolboy's teacher, Miss McGeeney, while taking a tour of the interior of the Trojan horse.  The protagonist is inspired by Shagpole Whipple and meets Mr. Mape, who inherited the titular sum, in his novel about "The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin".  This author of The Dream Life of Balso Snell and A Cool Million also wrote a work in which one character stomps on Adore Loomis after being hit by a rock and is emotionally disturbed when Faye Greener sleeps with Miguel and leaves him.  In another of his works, the title character is sexually aroused by Mary Shrike and is shot by the cripple Peter Doyle.  FTP, name this novelist who wrote about Homer Simpson and Tod Hackett in The Day of the Locust and the titular newspaper columnist in Miss Lonelyhearts.
One character created by this author meets a schoolboy who hides his journal in a tree trunk and the schoolboy's teacher, Miss McGeeney, while taking a tour of the interior of the Trojan horse.  
Nathanael West or Nathan Weinstein