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. The title character (10[1])of a novel by this author remembers kissing Sally Seton while at a dinner party (10[1])on the night that the World War I veteran Septimus (10[1])Smith jumps out a window. 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 (10[1])and (10[1])Mrs. Dalloway. ■END■

ANSWER: Virginia Woolf (The novel in the first line is The Waves.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Rahul Jogadhenu (DII)UCLA CClaremont B5910
Karthik Krishnamurthy (DII)USCUCLA A7410
Vivian Fan (DII)Claremont AUCSD8410
Daniel Tritasavit (DII)UCLA DClaremont C11310
Ivan Karp (UG)UCLA BUCLA E11410

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2024 ACF Fall at WashingtonfallY6100%0%17%79.00
2024 ACF Fall at GeorgiafallY1292%0%17%89.55
2024 ACF Fall at North CarolinafallY8100%0%13%88.63
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont CollegesfallY5100%0%0%88.80
2024 ACF Fall at RutgersfallY989%0%0%86.00
2024 ACF Fall at IllinoisfallY9100%0%11%83.56