In which state did the man who wrote "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" grow up?
Massachusetts
Title: Alan Dundes
Passage: Alan Dundes (September 8, 1934 – March 30, 2005) was a folklorist at the University of California, Berkeley.  His work was said to have been central to establishing the study of folklore as an academic discipline.  He wrote 12 books, both academic and popular, and edited or co-wrote two dozen more.  One of his most notable articles was called "Seeing is Believing" in which he indicated that Americans value the sense of sight more than the other senses.
Title: Nunzio DeFilippis
Passage: Nunzio DeFilippis is an American writer of comic books and television.  He writes with his wife, Christina Weir, whom he met while they were both students at Vassar College.  The two have written for two seasons on HBO's "Arli$$", and have sold story ideas to the Disney Channel's "Kim Possible".  In comics, they have written several graphic novels and miniseries for independent publisher Oni Press, including "Skinwalker, Three Strikes, Maria's Wedding, The Tomb, Once In A Blue Moon" the Amy Devlin Mysteries, Frenemy Of The State (written with Rashida Jones), and Bad Medicine.  Their work at Oni led to work at Marvel Comics, relaunching the teen mutant book "New Mutants".  This book was renamed "".  Their run on these books spanned three years and created almost two dozen new super-powered mutant characters for Marvel's X-Men franchise, including Surge, Hellion, Wind Dancer, Prodigy, Wallflower, Elixir, Tag, Rockslide, Mercury, Anole, and Wither.  They have also written for DC Comics, with stories appearing in "Wonder Woman, Adventures of Superman" and "Batman Confidential" and Dark Horse with "Dragon Age: Knight Errant."  The duo also work in the expanding field of Japanese manga, providing English adaptations for the Del Rey titles "Guru-Guru Pon-Chan, Sugar Sugar Rune" and "Kagetora".  They also write original English language manga for Seven Seas Entertainment, writing one of the company's launch titles, "Amazing Agent Luna" and the pirate manga, "Destiny's Hand".  DeFilippis also wrote, without his wife, an issue of DC Comics' "Detective Comics".  He taught comic writing at UCLA Extension before teaching screenwriting and comic book writing at the Los Angeles branch of the New York Film Academy, where he is now Chair of the Screenwriting Department and Dean of Faculty.
Title: Clay Blair
Passage: Clay Blair Jr. (May 1, 1925 – December 16, 1998) was an American historian, best known for his books on military history.  He served on the fleet submarine "Guardfish" (SS-217) in World War II and later wrote for "Time" and "Life" magazines before becoming editor-in-chief of "The Saturday Evening Post."  He assisted General Omar Bradley in the writing of his autobiography, "A General's Life" (1983), published after the general's death.  Blair wrote two dozen history books and hundreds of magazine articles that reached a popular audience.  His last book was "Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunted, 1942–1945" (1998), which followed "Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939–1942" (1996).
Title: Two Dozen and One Greyhounds
Passage: "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" is the 20th episode of "The Simpsons"' sixth season.  It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 9, 1995.  The episode was written by Mike Scully and directed by Bob Anderson.  Frank Welker guest stars as Santa's Little Helper and various other dogs.  In the episode, Santa's Little Helper has puppies with a dog that he met at the greyhound racetrack.
Title: Metacomet Ridge
Passage: The Metacomet Ridge, Metacomet Ridge Mountains, or Metacomet Range of southern New England, United States, is a narrow and steep fault-block mountain ridge known for its extensive cliff faces, scenic vistas, microclimate ecosystems, and communities of plants considered rare or endangered.  An important recreation resource located within 10 mi of a population corridor of over 1.5 million people, the ridge is home to four long-distance hiking trails and over a dozen parks and recreation areas including several state and nationally recognized historic sites.  Because of its natural, historic, and recreational value, the ridge has been the focus of ongoing conservation efforts involving municipal, state, and national agencies and nearly two dozen non-profit organizations.
Title: Mike Scully
Passage: Michael "Mike" Scully (born October 2, 1956) is an American television writer and producer.  He is known for his work as executive producer and showrunner of the animated sitcom "The Simpsons" from 1997 to 2001.  Scully grew up in West Springfield, Massachusetts and long had an interest in writing.  He was an underachiever at school and dropped out of college, going on to work in a series of jobs.  Eventually, in 1986, he moved to Los Angeles where he worked as a stand-up comic and wrote for Yakov Smirnoff.
Title: Spring Creek raid
Passage: The Spring Creek raid, also known as the Tensleep Murders or the Tensleep Raid, occurred in 1909 and was the last serious conflict during the Sheep Wars in Wyoming, as well as the deadliest sheep raid in the state's history.  On the night of April 2, the sheepherder Joe Allemand and four of his associates were encamped along Spring Creek, near the town of Ten Sleep, when a group of seven masked cattlemen attacked them.  It remains uncertain as to whether or not an exchange of gunfire took place between the two parties, but evidence suggests that Allemand and two of his men were executed while the remaining two escaped unharmed.  Two sheep wagons were also destroyed by fire and about two dozen head of sheep were shot to death.  Seven men were arrested for the crime, two of whom turned state's evidence and were acquitted.  The rest were found guilty and sent to prison for sentences ranging from three years to life in prison.  The conviction of the Tensleep murderers effectively put an end to the killings on the open range and exemplified the arrival of law and order in a region that still retained its rugged frontier environment after the end of the 19th century.  Although there continued to be sheep raids in Wyoming into the 1910s, there were no more deaths.
Title: Patricia Highsmith
Passage: Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for her psychological thrillers, which led to more than two dozen film adaptations.  Her first novel, "Strangers on a Train", has been adapted for stage and screen numerous times, notably by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951.  Highsmith wrote 22 novels, including her series of five novels with Tom Ripley as protagonist, and many short stories.  Existentialism is the literary movement that most influenced her writing, with "Dostoyevsky and Gide through Camus and Sartre" among her favorite authors.  Graham Greene described Highsmith as "the poet of apprehension rather than fear.  Fear after a time...is narcotic, it can lull one by fatigue into sleep, but apprehension nags at the nerves gently and inescapably."  Published under the pseudonym of "Claire Morgan," Highsmith wrote the first lesbian novel with a happy ending, "The Price of Salt", republished 38 years later as "Carol" under her own name.
Title: Freya Stark
Passage: Dame Freya Madeline Stark, Mrs Perowne, DBE (31 January 1893 – 9 May 1993) was a British - Italian explorer and travel writer.  She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan, as well as several autobiographical works and essays.  She was one of the first non-Arabians to travel through the southern Arabian Deserts.
Title: Luis Romero (novelist)
Passage: Luis Romero (1916–2009) was a Spanish novelist.  He was born in Barcelona.  He wrote two dozen books in a literary career spanning four decades.  He won the Premio Nadal in 1951 for his novel "La noria" and the Premio Planeta in 1963 for "El cacique".  He wrote a well-received biography of the artist Salvador Dalí ("Todo Dalí en un rostro", 1975).  He also published a couple of histories of the Spanish Civil War, "Tres días de julio" in 1967, and "Por qué y cómo mataron a Calvo Sotelo" in 1982.  The latter work won the Premio Espejo de España.  Late in his career, he won the Premio Ramon Llull for his novel "Castell de cartes".
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