Question

In a novel by this author, a servant frets about the perpetually undercooked salmon as gentlemen in the dining room drink a wine called Imperial Tokay. A book by this author contrasts a lunch with sole in cream sauce and a dinner with “plain gravy soup” before concluding that “one cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” A novel by this author features a dinner party for a man who dies shortly thereafter in a riding accident in (*) India. In a novel by this author, a dinner centered on the dish Boeuf en Daube concludes the opening section, “The Window.” A crowd sees a plane spelling out the word “toffee” (10[1])at the start of a novel by this author, (10[1])which opens by noting that its protagonist “said she would buy the flowers herself” for a dinner party attended by Peter Walsh. For 10 points, name this author of The Waves and Mrs. Dalloway. ■END■

ANSWER: Virginia Woolf [or Adeline Virginia Woolf; or Adeline Virginia Stephen] (The second sentence refers to A Room of One’s Own.)
<Morrison, Long Fiction>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Shahar SchwartzBerkeley ABerkeley B11510
Stephen LiuFree AgentsStanford12410

Summary

2024 ESPN @ Stanford03/09/2024Y2100%0%0%119.50
2024 ESPN @ Chicago03/23/2024N6100%0%17%114.67
2024 ESPN @ Columbia03/23/2024N7100%29%0%90.43
2024 ESPN @ Duke03/23/2024N2100%0%50%140.00
2024 ESPN @ Cambridge04/06/2024N2100%100%0%62.00
2024 ESPN @ Brown04/06/2024N2100%0%0%139.50
2024 ESPN @ Online06/01/2024N3100%0%0%106.33