E. B. White
American writer
20th-century american novelists
Theodore H. White
American political journalist and historian, known for his reporting from China during World War II and the Making of the President series
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.
John Updike
American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic
Jack Vance
American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer
Gore Vidal
American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner
Kurt Vonnegut
American writer
Susan Vreeland
American author