French novelist André (4)
I believe the answer is:
gide
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">french novelist andre</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I've seen this in another clue)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is all the clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for gide that I've seen before include "Andre -, French novelist" , "Andre --, French writer" , "Andre -, Fr. novelist" , "Andre -, C Nineteen-twenty French author" .)