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 while (10[1])at a dinner party on the night that the World War I veteran Septimus Smith (10[1])jumps (10[1])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[2])Mrs. Dalloway. ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

ANSWER: Virginia Woolf (The novel in the first line is The Waves.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Reese PowellCornell AESF5610
Kieran FreedU of Rochester ACornell B7010
Anna KuangCornell ECornell D8510
Will HooverRIT BCornell C8610
Grace GriffithsPenn StateCornell F11310
Giuseppe PiccirilliBinghamton ASyracuse11410
Claire ChambersBinghamton BRIT A11410
Jude Mejia-VazquezRIT CBinghamton C1170
Elijah O'Sick JohnsonBinghamton CRIT C1170
Gianna PettineU of Rochester BCornell G11710

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2024 ACF Fall at CornellfallY989%0%0%94.38
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio StatefallY8100%0%0%73.75
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