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His comeback features in Greene's biography (5)

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I believe the answer is:

ibsen

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'his' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

'comeback features in greene's biography' is the wordplay.
'comeback' says the letters should be written backwards.
'features in' indicates a hidden word (I've seen 'featured in' mean this).
'nesbi' is hidden in the letters of 'greenes biography'.
'nesbi' reversed gives 'IBSEN'.

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(Other definitions for ibsen that I've seen before include "Henrik -, dramatist from fourteen down (Hedda Gabler)" , "Scandinavian playwright" , "'Ghosts' writer" , "Norwegian author of 'Peer Gynt' etc" , "Is Ben a playwright?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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