Claire Harman’s biography All Sorts of Lives defends this author against charges of plagiarizing Chekhov’s story “Sleepy” during a hospital stay in Bad Wörishofen. [Bahd Vor-ees-hoh-fen] In an early story by this author, a crowd of “blue men” surround a girl at the beach after she spends an enjoyable day being kidnapped. This author, the inspiration (-5[1])for Gudrun in Women in Love, possibly caught fatal tuberculosis from her close friend D.H. (15[1])Lawrence. The sentence “And after all the (*) weather was (10[1])ideal” begins a story by this author, in which a girl asks to “stop everything” after learning that a nearby (10[1])carter was killed by his (10[1])horse. In that story by this author, (10[1])Laura brings a basket of leftover cream puffs to the (10[1])Scott (10[1])family. For 10 points, name this New Zealand-born author who wrote “The Garden Party.” ■END■