Claire Harman’s biography All Sorts of Lives defends this author against charges of plagiarizing Chekhov’s story “Sleepy” during a hospital stay in Bad Wörishofen. [Bahd Vor-ees-hoh-fen] In an early story by this author, a crowd of “blue men” surround a girl at the beach after she spends an enjoyable day being kidnapped. This author, the inspiration for Gudrun in Women in Love, possibly caught fatal tuberculosis from her close friend D.H. (15[1])Lawrence. The sentence “And after all the (*) weather was ideal” begins a story by this author, in which a girl asks to “stop everything” after learning that a nearby carter was killed by his horse. In that story by this author, Laura (10[1])brings a (10[1])basket of leftover cream puffs to the Scott family. For 10 points, name this New Zealand-born author, who wrote “The Garden Party.” ■END■