Question

A character based on the playwright Nicholas Udall tutors the protagonist of a trilogy by this author about Katharine Howard. It’s not William Golding, but this [emphasize] English-born author co-wrote the novels Romance and The Inheritors. In a novel by this author, Sylvia tries to destroy the Groby Great Tree after spying on her husband and his mistress Valentine Wannop. In a novel by this author, the narrator’s wife commits suicide by drinking (*) prussic acid after seeing the title character (-5[1])with Nancy Rufford. The “last Tory” Christopher Tietjens is the protagonist of a tetralogy (10[1])by this author. (10[1])The sentence, “This is the saddest story I have ever heard” opens a novel by this author (10[1])in which John Dowell recounts the suicide of Edward Ashburnam. For 10 points, name this author of Parade’s End and The Good Soldier. ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: Ford Madox Ford [or Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer] (Romance and The Inheritors were co-written with Joseph Conrad.)
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