In that story, a boy from Hades, Mississippi travels with his friend from St. Midas' prep school, who lives in an enormous château in five miles of unsurveyed territory, where his grandfather found a mountain-sized jewel.
In one story by this author, a steel-loving MIT grad quits his job as an insurance clerk to go to Tennessee, where he returns a year later after an expedition to Peru. In another story by this author of "The Sensible Thing," Ardita Farnam throws The Revolt of the Angels at her uncle before her yacht, the Narcissus, is hijacked by a colonel's son. A more famous story by this author centers on a girl who quotes "Kubla Khan" before getting lost in a building and seeing a ghost; that character hails from Tarleton, Georgia and breaks off her engagement to a (*) Yankee with whom she visits a Confederate cemetery and a winter carnival. This author also wrote a story in which an Italian teacher escapes from a prison of aviators shaped like a glass bowl that later explodes. In that story, a boy from Hades, Mississippi travels with his friend from St. Midas' prep school, who lives in an enormous château in five miles of unsurveyed territory, where his grandfather found a mountain-sized jewel. For 10 points, name this author of "The Offshore Pirate," "The Ice Palace" and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz."
In one story by this author, a steel-loving MIT grad quits his job as an insurance clerk to go to Tennessee, where he returns a year later after an expedition to Peru.
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald