I agree with the general opinion that this didn't provide the usual challenge that so many Listener solvers relish. But that doesn't mean that it didn't give pleasure. I for one enjoyed being reminded of the author, and I suggest reading the one that contains a disquisition on the subgenre in which the author specialized. I also enjoyed the clues, with some good misleading definitions and a few & lits; 11 was particularly entertaining, although it would have been greatly improved by omission of the first word, a change from "are" to "may be", and a question mark at the end. This makes me wonder how much editing of clues the editors actually do, to help composers improve their puzzles. In the words of one great editor I knew, "editors should edit".
Incidentally, the mystery author featured in a Listener puzzle about 10 years ago, although on that occasion, much more, including the subgenre, was revealed in the preamble.
[Note to Ruthrobin: is it not generally the case that accents in answers are ignored, even if this is an unwritten convention? I don't buy the phonemic argument--a letter in an across light may be pronounced differently from the same letter in the crossing down light (e.g. 20 and 21, 48 and 49). In IPA such pairs have different phonetic symbols, irrespective of whether the phonemic variant is conferred by a diacritic.]