In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.

In one of this author's short stories, the title character is killed after taking a boy hostage, after which his body is dumped in an unused mine and stinks up the village. In addition to The Catch, this author has recently completed the trilogy The Flaming Green Tree, a work he claims will be his last. Other works by him include a four-volume collection that contains a story about the boy Eeyore, Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, and a novel about children who are taken to a remote village after a plague breaks out. The birth of Bird's child with a brain hernia parallels this man's own experiences with his retarded son and is central to his A Personal Matter. FTP, identify this author of Nip the Bud, Shoot the Kids, who also wrote about the brothers Mitsu and Takashi in The Silent Cry.
Literature

The magnetic moment of a charged particle is equal to this quantity times the g-factor times charge divided by two times the mass. Delta baryons have a value of 1.5 for this quantity, and, like other particles with half-integer values of this quantity, obey Fermi-Dirac statistics, whereas those with integer values obey (*) Bose-Einstein statistics. The Pauli Exclusion Principle states that pairs of electrons in the same orbital sub-shell must have opposite values of this quantity. For ten points, identify this quantum number, the angular momentum of a sub-atomic particle.
Science

A character in this work refuses to stop his own punishment by claiming that all power is a form of violence exercised over people. Another character in this work has his head lopped off by a trolley after his death was prophesied, leading to a comic chase that sees a poet land in an insane asylum. One character in this work has a posse that include Hella, Behemoth, Kovoriev-Faggot, and Azazello, a naked maid, black cat, clown, and evil trickster, respectively. That character, Woland, reincarnates one of the title characters manuscripts, which tells the story of Yeshua Ha-Notsri, a rabble-rouser from Galilee who is really Jesus Christ. FTP, name this work in which the title woman makes a Faustian pact with the devil to be with her lover, the titular nameless writer, a work of Mikhail Bulgakov.

Literature