Round 3: Tossup 6

Cynthia Ozick mocked the claim that this author’s genius relied on “emotional strain” in a response to Edmund Wilson’s call for “justice to” this author. A character this author called a “negative hero” kneels by his dead friend at the moment that “there passed between them the word which made all clear.” A 2012 tribute by Jonathan Franzen controversially dwelt on the appearance of this author, who wrote a novel in which a character hallucinates a baby in her arms during a fatal (*) overdose; that woman created by this author shocks partygoers with a stunning appearance in a Joshua Reynolds tableau vivant. In a novel by this author, an indebted 29-year-old misses opportunities to marry Simon Rosedale, Percy Gryce, and her friend Lawrence Selden. For 10 points, what author wrote about Lily Bart in The House of Mirth? ■END■ (10[2])

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