John Updike
American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic
Creator
Gertrude Chandler Warner
American author, mainly of children’s stories
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history
Jack Vance
American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer
Giorgio Vasari
Italian painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, best known for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing, and the basis for biographies of several Renaissance artists, including Leonardo da Vinci
Jules Verne
French novelist, poet, and playwright
Gore Vidal
American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner
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