Garry Wills
American author, journalist, and historian, specializing in American history, politics, and religion, especially the history of the Catholic Church
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Edmund Wilson
American writer and literary critic who explored Freudian and Marxist themes
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.
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
Malcolm X
African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement
Marguerite Yourcenar
French novelist and essayist born in Brussels, Belgium, who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Acadmie franaise, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy seat 3.
A. Zee
Chinese-American physicist, writer, and currently a professor at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the physics department of the University of California, Santa Barbara