Walt Whitman
American poet, essayist and journalist
novelist
Elie Wiesel
Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet and playwright
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.
Thornton Wilder
American playwright and novelist
Robert Penn Warren
American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism
Tennessee Williams
American playwright and screenwriter
Mark Twain
American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer
Anne Tyler
American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic
Sigrid Undset
Norwegian-Danish novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark, but her family moved to Norway when she was two years old