Question

A novel by this author intersperses italicized descriptions with soliloquies of the six friends of dead Percival. This author’s life is the basis for a novel about the AIDS-afflicted poet Richard Brown, The Hours by Michael Cunningham. In a novel by this author, Charles Tansley says that women can’t paint or write in front of Lily Briscoe. (10[1])The title character of a novel by this author remembers kissing Sally Seton (10[2]-5[1])while at a dinner party on the night that the World War I veteran Septimus Smith jumps out (10[2])a window. (10[3])A novel by this author details the Ramsey family’s visit to the title structure. For 10 points, name this author of To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Virginia Woolf (The novel in the first line is The Waves.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
David MathewPurdue ANotre Dame B5610
Anila MoparthiIllinois BIndiana6910
Sam KonkelChicago AIowa A69-5
Conner YamnitzWashU APurdue C6910
Sam AlahiIllinois ANorthwestern A8710
Maya KvaratskheliaNotre Dame ANotre Dame C8710
Emmett ChoChicago BPurdue B8910
Quinn WhitlowIllinois DIllinois C8910
Sam HewittWashU BIowa B8910
Grace EarlyIowa AChicago A11710

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2024 ACF Fall at North CarolinafallY8100%0%13%88.63
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2024 ACF Fall at IllinoisfallY9100%0%11%83.56