The term 'MIDDLEMARCH AUTHOR' can be solved by two crossword solutions: ELIOT (5 letters) and GEORGEELIOT (11 letters). The correct answer is George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her most famous work is the novel Middlemarch, which was published in eight parts between 1871 and 1872.