Booker T. Washington
American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States
Creator
Elie Wiesel
Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor
James D. Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist
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
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