Author of Vanity Fair and The Luck of Barry Lyndon (9)

I believe the answer is:

thackeray

(Other definitions for thackeray that I've seen before include "Victorian novelist, William" , "William Makepeace --, English novelist" , "W.M. -, Eng. novelist" , "Pendennis author" , "writer" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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