Possible Clues:

• Author of 'Le Rouge et le Noir'
• French novelist
• ''The Red and the Black'' author
• Le rouge et le Noir author
• Writer, having had shoddy literary toils rejected, left
• Wise old teacher, now recognized as a high flyer
• Novelist finds way to conclude passage shortly
• "The Red and the Black" novelist
• The land's laid waste for Henri Beyle
• French novelist (The Charterhouse of Parma)