Possible Clues:

• Writer tries introducing current term of interest
• A writer from Wales, say, is Thomas
• Writer, some lefties say, is Tory
• Lamb, for one
• Hazlitt or Montaigne, say
• He writes about state (it is in German)
• Lamb or Montaigne, e.g.
• Writer contributing to stories, say, I study
• James Baldwin, for one
• Influence is held by established kind of writer