"Silas Marner" author (5)
I believe the answer is:
eliot
'silas marner author' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
This is all the clue.
(Other definitions for eliot that I've seen before include "One of two writers" , "Author of Adam Bede, d.1880" , "The Waste Land author" , "T S . . . . . wrote ''The Waste Land''" , "Practical Cats author" .)