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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 (10[1])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 (-5[1])of a novel by this author remembers (10[1])kissing Sally Seton (10[1])while at a dinner party (10[1])on the night that the World War I veteran Septimus 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 (-5[1])To the Lighthouse (10[1])and (10[1])Mrs. Dalloway. ■END■ (10[4]0[1])

ANSWER: Virginia Woolf (The novel in the first line is The Waves.)
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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

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Ethan AltshulEmory AGeorgia Tech B2510
Henry BylinowskiAuburn ATennessee A5610
Towery McNeilMississippi State ASouth Carolina B59-5
Pranav JohtiGeorgia Tech ASouth Carolina A6610
Varun VenkatagiriGeorgia AClemson B6910
Jeffery XuGeorgia Tech DGeorgia Tech E7410
Zach MillerAuburn CVanderbilt B110-5
Britton WebsterAlabama AFurman11310
Aaryan TomarGeorgia Tech CAuburn B11410
Dylan SpearmanClemson ATennessee B11710
Yuxuan LuVanderbilt AEmory Oxford11710
John McqueenSouth Carolina BMississippi State A11710
Akajiugo AmucheaziSouthernBelmont11710
James ZhaoVanderbilt BAuburn C1170