'Vanity Fair' is a famous ____ by William Makepeace Thackeray.

William Makepeace Thackeray: English novelist whose reputation rests chiefly on Vanity Fair (1847–48), a novel of the Napoleonic period in England.

Other works:
- The History of Henry Esmond, Esq
- The Virginians
- Pendennis
- The Newcomes
- The Rose and the Ring
- Barry Lyndon

Source: britannica