T. H. White
English author best known for his Arthurian novels, published together in 1958 as The Once and Future King
novelist
Theodore H. White
American political journalist and historian, known for his reporting from China during World War II and the Making of the President series
Colson Whitehead
American novelist
Walt Whitman
American poet, essayist and journalist
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.
Gertrude Chandler Warner
American author, mainly of children’s stories
Scott Turow
American author and lawyer
Mark Twain
American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer