Question

In a story by this author, a man has a dream in which his wife downplays the suicide note of a teen girl being mourned in a lecture hall. A man in another story by this author attempts to insert the adjectives “lonely” and “empty” into the first line of a poem, before he remembers that the phrase was “shoreless seas.” (15[1])In a story by this author, a former professor of Icelandic legends attempts to kindle a romance with a woman so that her husband, Aubrey, can return to a (*) nursing home with the Alzheimer’s-stricken Fiona. A woman in a story by this author, who’s estranged from her younger daughter Nichola, quizzes her ailing father after she beholds a show at a planetarium. “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” and “The Moons of Jupiter” were written by, for 10 points, what Nobel-winning Canadian short story author? ■END■

ANSWER: Alice Munro [or Alice Ann Munro; or Alice Ann Laidlaw]
<Darren Petrosino, American Literature>
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2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)10/28/2023Y1100%100%0%60.00