Emile —, French author of novels Germinal and Therese Raquin (4)

I believe the answer is:

zola

(Other definitions for zola that I've seen before include "Emile -, Fr. novelist" , "French novelist, defender of Dreyfus, d. 1902" , "19th-century French novelist" , "See 15" , "Emile --, French writer" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.

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