[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. 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}