Walt Whitman
American poet, essayist and journalist
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Elie Wiesel
Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor
Leon Wieseltier
American critic and magazine editor
William W. Warner
American biologist and writer
Richard Wilbur
American poet and literary translator
Robert Penn Warren
American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism
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.
Booker T. Washington
American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States
Thornton Wilder
American playwright and novelist
James D. Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist