Authors that begin with W

W. E. B. Du Bois

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. ... [View more]
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W. W. Jacobs

William Wymark Jacobs was an English author of short fiction and drama. His best remembered story is "The Monkey's Paw" and several other ghost sto... [View more]
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Wallace Wattles

Wallace Delois Wattles was an American New Thought writer. He remains personally somewhat obscure, but his writing has been widely quoted and rema... [View more]
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Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorp... [View more]
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Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSA Scot was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright, and historian. Many of his works remain classics of... [View more]
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Washington Irving

American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. His historical works include biograph... [View more]
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Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins, in full William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and one of the earliest writers of the mystery story. Although he wrote many bo... [View more]
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Willa Cather

Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I. [View more]
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William Blake

William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the ... [View more]
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William Faulkner

William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafaye... [View more]
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William Hope Hodgson

William Hope Hodgson was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overla... [View more]
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William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist, author and illustrator, who was born in India. He is known for his satirical works, particularly... [View more]
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William Morris

William Morris was a British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, architectural conservationist, printer, translator and socialist activist as... [View more]
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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's grea... [View more]
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William Walker Atkinson

William Walker Atkinson was an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of the New Thought moveme... [View more]
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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their... [View more]
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