### Clue: New guy starts to renegotiate cheap fee for each writer (8,7)
### Answer: GEOFFREY CHAUCER 
 ### Explanation: Definition: writer
 **Anagram of**(New) [GUY + **1st letters, respectively, of**(starts to) "renegotiate cheap" + FEE FOR EACH].**
Defn: … in England in the Middle Ages.