Question

One author with this surname used his experience as a colonial administrator in Sri Lanka to write the novel The Village in the Jungle. Near the end of a novel by an author with this surname, the title character decides not to bury her poem based on the real-life poem The Land under an oak tree. Two authors with this surname founded the Hogarth Press. The prologue of the novel (*) The Hours (10[1])by Michael Cunningham depicts the suicide of an author with this surname. The protagonist of a novel by an author with this surname dislikes Miss Kilman, who teaches her daughter Elizabeth. In a novel by an author with this surname, the title character learns about the suicide of Septimus Smith during the party she’s hosting. For 10 points, give this surname shared by Leonard and his wife, the author of Mrs. Dalloway. ■END■

ANSWER: Woolf [accept Virginia Woolf or Adeline Virginia Woolf; accept Leonard Woolf or Leonard Sidney Woolf; prompt on Adeline Virginia Stephen by asking, “What was her married name?”]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Braden BoothMissouriWUSTL7110

Summary

2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite)2023-10-21Y1100%0%0%71.00