Donald E. Westlake
American writer, with more than a hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit
novelist
Edith Wharton
American novelist, short story writer, and designer
E. B. White
American writer
T. H. White
English author best known for his Arthurian novels, published together in 1958 as The Once and Future King
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
Alice Walker
American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist
Jo Walton
Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet
Sylvia Townsend Warner
English novelist, poet and musicologist, known for works such as Lolly Willowes, Whether a Dove or a Seagull, and After the Death of Don Juan.