Question

In a 2017 novel, a laconic immigrant of this nationality makes his way across the American West while inexplicably growing in size. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this nationality of a picaresque giant in Hernán Díaz’s novel In the Distance. The bounty hunter Homer T. Hatch arrives to capture a harmonica-playing farmhand of this nationality in a book the author called a “short novel.”
ANSWER: Swedish [or Swedish-American; or Swedes; or svenskar] (The short novel is Noon Wine by Katherine Anne Porter.)
[10e] The Swedish-American Berglund family works a farm in Nebraska in O Pioneers!, one of this author’s novels about immigrant families on the Great Plains.
ANSWER: Willa Cather [or Willa Sibert Cather; or Wilella Sibert Cather]
[10m] This author wrote that every publisher rejected his story “A Country Full of Swedes” for being “a denial of man's nobility.” This author made the photobook You Have Seen Their Faces with his wife, Margaret Bourke-White.
ANSWER: Erskine Caldwell [or Erskine Preston Caldwell]

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Brown AWUSTL A10101030
Chicago AOhio State A0101020
Chicago BDuke A0101020
Claremont AIowa State A010010
Columbia BRutgers B010010
Cornell AStanford A0101020
Florida AYale A010010
Florida BJohns Hopkins A010010
Georgia Tech BYale B010010
Harvard AColumbia A0101020
Indiana ATexas A010010
Maryland AGeorgia Tech A010010
Minnesota AMIT A0101020
Minnesota BPurdue A010010
NYU AImperial A0101020
North Carolina AChicago C010010
Penn AIllinois A010010
Penn State AVirginia A0101020
Toronto ACornell B010010
UC Berkeley ANorthwestern A10101030
UC Berkeley BVanderbilt A0101020
WUSTL BRutgers A0101020