Gore Vidal
American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner
Creator
Virgil
Ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period
Voltaire
French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of Christianityespecially the Roman Catholic Churchas well as his advocacy of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state
Elizabeth von Arnim
Set in Germany
Kurt Vonnegut
American writer
Barbara W. Tuchman
American historian and author
Susan Vreeland
American author
Scott Turow
American author and lawyer
D. J. Waldie
American essayist, memoirist, translator, and editor who also is the former Deputy City Manager of Lakewood, California
Alexis de Tocqueville
French aristocrat, diplomat, political scientist, political philosopher and historian