Vanity Fair author (9)
I believe the answer is:
thackeray
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">vanity fair author</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 thackeray that I've seen before include "Victorian novelist, William" , "W.M. -, Eng. novelist" , "Makepeace his middle name" , "William Makepeace . . . . . . . . . wrote ` `Vanity Fair' '" , "Vanity Fair author" .)