Question

In her youth, this author trained to be an actress, which inspired her use of the name of an Ibsen character as a pseudonym. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author who wrote a nearly 1,200-page travel book detailing her 1937 trip to Yugoslavia, called Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.
ANSWER: Dame Rebecca West [or Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield]
[10e] Despite calling him “the Old Maid of novelists” in a review of his novel Marriage, West later had a torrid affair with this author of The War of the Worlds.
ANSWER: H. G. Wells [or Herbert George Wells]
[10h] West’s book The Strange Necessity concludes that “though [this novel] is ugly and incompetent, it is a work of art.” Virginia Woolf called this book a novel “of the utmost sincerity” whose author understands that “life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged.”
ANSWER: Ulysses (by James Joyce)

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Chicago BMaryland A010010
Florida BNYU A010010
Georgia Tech AChicago A10101030
Georgia Tech BMcGill A010010
Illinois ARutgers A1010020
Indiana AColumbia A010010
Johns Hopkins AHouston A010010
MIT AHarvard A1010020
Michigan AVanderbilt A010010
Minnesota ANorth Carolina A1010020
Northwestern AChicago C1010020
Ohio State AFlorida A1010020
Penn State AClaremont A010010
Purdue AImperial A1010020
Rutgers BMinnesota B010010
Stanford ADuke A1010020
Texas ACornell B010010
UC Berkeley AToronto A1010020
UC Berkeley BColumbia B010010
Virginia APenn A010010
WUSTL ACornell A1010020
WUSTL BSouth Carolina A010010
Yale ABrown A1010020
Yale BIowa State A0101020