Henry Williamson
English author who wrote novels concerned with wildlife, English social history and ruralism
british
P. G. Wodehouse
English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century
Virginia Woolf
English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device
William Wordsworth
English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads .
Wordsworth’s magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times
John Wyndham
English science fiction writer best known for his works published under the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes
James D. Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist
Evelyn Waugh
English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer
C. V. Wedgwood
English historian who published under the name C. V. Wedgwood
H. G. Wells
English writer
Rebecca West
British author, journalist, literary critic, and travel writer