Robert Penn Warren
American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism
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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
John Williams
American composer, conductor and pianist
C. V. Wedgwood
English historian who published under the name C. V. Wedgwood
Tennessee Williams
American playwright and screenwriter
Eudora Welty
American short story writer, novelist and photographer, who wrote about the American South
Lawrence Weschler
Author of works of creative nonfiction