Four pairs of unclued lights (17/5, 22/27, 29/31 and 8/26) form anagrams of the titles (one hyphened, three of three words) of novels by an author whose name is clued without definition.
Across
1 Apportioning silver crooked nursemaid pinched (11)
7 Being in French city without local friend (3)
11 Sickness in Vermont and Maine infected America (6)
13 Ducks landed in a little corner of rock (7)
15 Opening of Turin Trocadero (5)
16 Charlie and Oscar wolf down shellfish (5)
18 Classy cripple backing pilgrimage (5)
20 King and queen escorted outside stone partition (6)
21 Place hard to reach in a westerly republic (5)
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