Round 8: Tossup 22

A woman created by this author is given white roses by a lover, inspiring her to send him some annually on his birthday. A man created by this author relates how he stole a book from a guard’s coat pocket in solitary confinement, which led him to make objects out of bread and dust. In this author’s only non-posthumous novel, a cavalryman at a party awkwardly asks a paralyzed woman to dance. In a novella by this author, the writer R. (15[1])learns that he is the father of a dead boy in the title (*) Letter from an Unknown Woman. Books (10[1])by this author, like the novel Beware of Pity and the memoir The World of Yesterday, inspired The Grand Budapest (10[1])Hotel. A novella by this author is set on a cruise ship where Dr. B defeats the grandmaster Mirko Czentovic. For 10 points, what Austrian author wrote The (10[1])Royal Game, or Chess Story? ■END■

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