Question
In a letter apologizing to another author for an unflattering People interview, this author coined the term “Good Intentions Paving Company.” A biography of this author by Zachary Leader analyzes his dying words, “Was I a man or was I a jerk?” This author’s friendship with Christopher Hitchens and descent into dementia is fictionalized in Inside Story by Martin Amis, who considered this author his writing mentor. This author wrote of remembering Thomas Mofolo’s (*) Chaka immediately after giving a telephone interview in which he infamously asked, “Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus?” One of this author’s title characters, who holes up in the Hotel Crillon while dying of AIDS, is a fictionalization of a friend for whom this author wrote a preface to The Closing of the American Mind. For 10 points, name this author who fictionalized Allan Bloom in his final novel, Ravelstein. ■END■
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Summary
Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
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2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 13 | 92% | 0% | 23% | 101.00 |