Possible Clues:

• His downfall came after his masterpiece
• Dreyfus defender
• Novelist nicking lines from Moliere?, lazy hack!
• He wrote about Eliza Mole
• French author picking up beer around Australia - and fruit
• Would the writer's wife have been a Gorgon?
• 'The Experimental Novel' novelist
• Was this writer's wife a Gorgon?
• Might his wife have been a Gorgon? She may have made a meal of him
• Darling dog author