P. G. Wodehouse
English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century
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Thomas Wolfe
American novelist of the early 20th century.Wolfe wrote four lengthy novels as well as many short stories, dramatic works, and novellas
Tom Wolfe
American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques
Virginia Woolf
English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device
William Wordsworth
English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads .
Wordsworth’s magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times
Richard Wright
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Andrea Wulf
German-British historian and writer who has written books, newspaper articles and book reviews.
John Wyndham
English science fiction writer best known for his works published under the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes
Tim Wynne-Jones
EnglishCanadian author of children’s literature, including picture books and novels for children and young adults, novels for adults, radio dramas, songs for the CBC/Jim Henson production Fraggle Rock, as well as a children’s musical and an opera libretto.For his contribution as a children’s writer he was Canada’s nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2012.
Malcolm X
African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement