Edward O. Wilson
American biologist, naturalist, and writer
20th-century american novelists
P. G. Wodehouse
English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century
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
Colson Whitehead
American novelist
Elie Wiesel
Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor
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.
Thornton Wilder
American playwright and novelist
Tennessee Williams
American playwright and screenwriter
Robert Penn Warren
American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism