For 10 points, name this 20th-century British author of A Severed Head and Under the Net.
In one novel by this author, the protagonist watches a woman slice paper with a samurai sword, and then later has to decide which of three letters to send to apologize for drunkenly beating up that Jewish anthropologist in his cellar, after spilling wine on the carpet of his wife's lover. One of this author's protagonists abruptly breaks off contact with a friend out of guilt for transcribing their philosophical conversations into a novel without asking the friend's permission. The psychoanalyst (*) Palmer Anderson tries to steal Antonia, the wife of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, in a novel by this author. A book titled "Elegy for" this author chronicled her struggle with Alzheimer's and was written by her husband John Bayley. With the help of "Finn" O'Finney, the aging canine actor Mister Mars is kidnapped by the philosophical author Jake Donaghue in her breakout novel. For 10 points, name this 20th-century British author of A Severed Head and Under the Net.
In one novel by this author, the protagonist watches a woman slice paper with a samurai sword, and then later has to decide which of three letters to send to apologize for drunkenly beating up that Jewish anthropologist in his cellar, after spilling wine on the carpet of his wife's lover.
(Jean) Iris Murdoch