The title character of one of this author's novels witnesses a schism between St. Luke's Evangelical Church and the newly formed Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church.
One of this author's characters imagines himself being told "Now you are on the way to Golgotha," after he had to listen to Tom McDougal's accusations that his mother died a lunatic, while he is running for election. The title character of one of this author's novels witnesses a schism between St. Luke's Evangelical Church and the newly formed Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church. In that novel, its main character acts in a school play opposite Susie Doheny. In another novel, the protagonist uproots the stakes of Irish settlers and burns them, and that character perishes while trying to help out his neighbor (*) Hans Olsa, but he, the husband of Beret and settler of Spring Creek - Per Hansa, perishes in the snow. For 10 points, name this author of a trilogy of novels consisting of Their Fathers God, Peder Victorious and Giants in the Earth, a Norwegian-American writer. [Ike]
One of this author's characters imagines himself being told "Now you are on the way to Golgotha," after he had to listen to Tom McDougal's accusations that his mother died a lunatic, while he is running for election.
{Ole Rolvaag}