The authors, A to Z
Authors whose surname starts with W
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❦ Sorted by surname, the librarian's way — that's why Oscar Wilde lives here under W, not under O.
Lew Wallace
1827–1905 · United States
Epic faith justice and rivalry with vivid action and scale.
Booker T. Washington
1856–1915 · United States
Autobiography and education; dignity through skill, courage, and institution building.
Wallace Wattles
1860–1911 · United States
Direct self help on focus, gratitude, and disciplined action that shaped later manuals.
John Webster
1580–1632 · United Kingdom
Dark brilliance of Jacobean tragedy; lust, power, and wit in hard light.
H. G. Wells
1866–1946 · United Kingdom
Idea driven adventures that test technology, time, and society with brisk clarity.
Edith Wharton
1862–1937 · United States
Manners, money, and freedom drawn with surgical clarity and mercy.
Fred M. White
1859–1935 · United Kingdom
High stakes thrillers and catastrophe tales that anticipate modern disaster fiction.
Walt Whitman
1819–1892 · United States
Democratic lyric and open form; a big yes to bodies work and nation in motion.
Oscar Wilde
1854–1900 · Ireland
Paradox with poise; style used as ethics, defense, and delight in public life.
Thornton Wilder
1897–1975 · United States
Stage and novel about time and community; ritual, chance, and grace in clear form.
Jesse Lynch Williams
1871–1929 · United States
Smart social comedy and early Pulitzer era drama about marriage, work, and modern manners.
Margery Williams
1881–1944 · United Kingdom – United States
Children's classic insight; tenderness and time turn love into a way of seeing.
An author worth discovering
Margaret Wilson
Prairie life, faith, and resolve; quiet strength in domestic and civic choices.
Margaret Wilson
1882–1973 · United States
Prairie life, faith, and resolve; quiet strength in domestic and civic choices.
P. G. Wodehouse
1881–1975 · United Kingdom
Effortless comedy of manners where language acrobatics deliver kindness and clean joy.
Mary Wollstonecraft
1759–1797 · United Kingdom
Foundational feminist argument for education, reason, and dignity in public life.
Virginia Woolf
1882–1941 · United Kingdom
Sentence as camera: interior time, civic care, and experiment made luminous.
William Wordsworth
1770–1850 · United Kingdom
Attention and calm; ordinary life and nature turned into durable music.
Philip Wylie
1902–1971 · United States
Speculative nerve and social warning; brisk ideas about tech media and myth.
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