Tennessee Williams
American playwright and screenwriter
novelist
Evelyn Waugh
English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer
H. G. Wells
English writer
Eudora Welty
American short story writer, novelist and photographer, who wrote about the American South
Rebecca West
British author, journalist, literary critic, and travel writer
Donald E. Westlake
American writer, with more than a hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit
Edith Wharton
American novelist, short story writer, and designer
Gore Vidal
American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner
Voltaire
French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of Christianityespecially the Roman Catholic Churchas well as his advocacy of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state
Elizabeth von Arnim
Set in Germany