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Writer's novel I want (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

twain

'writer's' is the definition.
(author Mark Twain)

'novel i want' is the wordplay.
'novel' indicates an anagram (letters in a new or novel order).
'i'+'want'='iwant'
'iwant' with letters rearranged gives 'TWAIN'.

(Other definitions for twain that I've seen before include "Mark . . . . . was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens" , "Two (arch.)" , "US author; pair (arch.)" , "Pair (archaic) - US novelist, Mark" , "A pen-name" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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