Novelist ____ Rice (4)
I believe the answer is:
anne
'novelist rice' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
This is all the clue.
(Other definitions for anne that I've seen before include "--- Elliot, later Wentworth (J. Austen)" , "Queen 1702-1714" , "The Bard wooed and won her" , "One of two Henry VIII wives" , "- Frank, World War Two diarist" .)