Vanity Fair author (9)
I believe the answer is:
thackeray
'vanity fair author' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
This is all the clue.
(Other definitions for thackeray that I've seen before include "Victorian novelist, William" , "W.M. -, Eng. novelist" , "Makepeace his middle name" , "William Makepeace . . . . . . . . . wrote ` `Vanity Fair' '" , "Vanity Fair author" .)