Garry Wills
American author, journalist, and historian, specializing in American history, politics, and religion, especially the history of the Catholic Church
21st-century american male writers
Edward O. Wilson
American biologist, naturalist, and writer
Jay Winik
New York Times best-selling author and American historian who is best known for his book April 1865: The Month That Saved America.
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
Donald E. Westlake
American writer, with more than a hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit
Colson Whitehead
American novelist
Elie Wiesel
Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor
Leon Wieseltier
American critic and magazine editor
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