For 10 points, name this author of "The Petrified Man" who created the spoiled Wanda Fay and her older step- daughter Laurel McKelva Hand in The Optimist's Daughter.
A man who cares only about his own "pure-D satisfaction," "Sing a-down, down, down, down," narrates one of this writer's stories on a very hot day in Thermopylae; that story, about the driveway assassination of James Meredith, is based on the actual assassination of NAACP leader Medgar Evers. Billy Boy says the line, "If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?" at the end of another story by this author, in which Leota changes her mind about Mrs. Pike when Mrs. Pike claims five hundred dollars for uncovering the secret identity of the (*) rapist Mr. Petrie. She also wrote a novel wherein the secretary Dot shows up at the funeral of a man who was scared to death, and not scared to life, during his recovery from eye surgery. For 10 points, name this author of "The Petrified Man" who created the spoiled Wanda Fay and her older step- daughter Laurel McKelva Hand in The Optimist's Daughter.
A man who cares only about his own "pure-D satisfaction," "Sing a-down, down, down, down," narrates one of this writer's stories on a very hot day in Thermopylae; that story, about the driveway assassination of James Meredith, is based on the actual assassination of NAACP leader Medgar Evers.
Eudora {Welty}