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.
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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)
30 To some extent I vote against taking a wife (6, three words)
32 Mac’s nimble women in bed (5)
34 Hot rich bread one left abandoned (6)
36 Wee grandchild creating firework (5)
37 Bird bit grasping lecturer (5)
38 Retiring under pressure, tenor sacked becomes less kindly (7)
39 Spot dotty Ena reversing car (6)
40 Rabbit spinach repelled (3)
41 Shocked old German senses singular immorality (11)
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