That figure arrives with Ellie Oscar while most of the household is away at a barbecue.
One character created by this author receives a 4:30 AM telephone call from a voice that says "this is someone you just met." In a novel by this author, a man in a black hot-air balloon abducts Deirdre to Helena Blavatsky's lawn, and the ballpoint pen and a time machine are invented by John Quincey Zinn. A white woman attends Syracuse after being protected from Little Red Garlock by her black lover Jinx Fairchild in a novel by this author with a title from "In the Desert" by Stephen Crane. In addition to writing "What Is the Connection Between Men and Women?", the recent The (*) Gravedigger's Daughter, and The Bloodsmoor Romance, this author wrote about a figure who says that "33, 19, 17" is a "secret code" and has "DONE BY CRAZY WOMAN DRIVER" written on the smashed fender of his gold-painted jalopy. That figure arrives with Ellie Oscar while most of the household is away at a barbecue. For 10 points, name this author of "Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart" and A Garden of Earthly Delights, who describes Connie's departure with the ominous Arnold Friend in "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
One character created by this author receives a 4:30 AM telephone call from a voice that says "this is someone you just met.
Joyce Carol {Oates}