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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 about the AIDS-afflicted poet Richard Brown, The Hours by Michael Cunningham. In a novel by this author, (10[1])Charles Tansley says that women can’t paint or write (10[1])in front of Lily Briscoe. The title character of a novel by this author remembers kissing Sally Seton while at a dinner party on the night that the World War I veteran Septimus Smith (10[1])jumps out a window. (10[1])A novel (10[1])by this author details the Ramsey family’s visit to the title structure. (10[1])For 10 points, name this author (10[1])of To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway. ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: Virginia Woolf (The novel in the first line is The Waves.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Ethan Furman (DII)Penn A (DII)Penn B (DII)4210
Elijah Scheinson (UG)Columbia A (UG)Columbia J (DII)5110
Andy Yu (DII)Maryland A (DII)Fordham A8510
Kevin Liu (DII)Maryland B (DII)Bard A (UG)8910
Alexandra Duan (DII)Columbia BNYU A (UG)9110
Vinayak Singh BhadoriyaNYU BRowan A (DII)10310
Jaden Bandy (DII)Rutgers BLehigh A (UG)10910
Sidhant Chaliha (DII)Princeton A (UG)Lehigh B (DII)1170
Nolan Keating (DII)Lehigh B (DII)Lehigh A (UG)11810

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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