John Updike
American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic
novelist
Jack Vance
American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer
Jules Verne
French novelist, poet, and playwright
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
Kurt Vonnegut
American writer
Susan Vreeland
American author
Alice Walker
American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist
Jo Walton
Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet