James D. Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist
Creator
Leon Wieseltier
American critic and magazine editor
Evelyn Waugh
English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer
Richard Wilbur
American poet and literary translator
C. V. Wedgwood
English historian who published under the name C. V. Wedgwood
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet and playwright
Simone Weil
French philosopher, mystic, and political activist
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American writer, mostly known for the Little House on the Prairie series of children’s books, published between 1932 and 1943, which were based on her childhood in a settler and pioneer family.During the 1970s and early 1980s, the television series Little House on the Prairie was loosely based on the Little House books, and starred Melissa Gilbert as Laura and Michael Landon as her father, Charles Ingalls.
H. G. Wells
English writer
Thornton Wilder
American playwright and novelist