W. G. Sebald
German writer, poet, essayist, and literary scholar known for hybrid prose narratives about memory, exile, history, and loss.
14 works0 series
Author index
Authors beginning with W
W. Somerset Maugham
English novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, travel writer, and memoirist whose career spanned more than six decades.
78 works1 series
Wally Lamb
American novelist and editor known for psychologically rich literary fiction and two nonfiction anthologies produced from his writing workshop at York Correctional Institution.
9 works0 series
Walt Whitman
American poet, essayist, journalist, and author whose Leaves of Grass transformed nineteenth-century poetry.
15 works0 series
Walter Isaacson
American journalist, historian, professor, and bestselling biographer.
12 works0 series
Walter Jon Williams
Walter Jon Williams is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, historical adventure, and related fiction.
44 works9 series
Walter M. Miller Jr.
American science-fiction writer best known for A Canticle for Leibowitz.
4 works1 series
Walter Mosley
American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and nonfiction author known for crime fiction, speculative fiction, and politically engaged writing.
72 works8 series
Walter Tevis
Walter Tevis (1928–1984) was an American novelist and short-story writer whose fiction explored alienation, addiction, competition, technology, and human resilience.
8 works1 series
Walter Trier
Walter Trier (1890–1951) was a Prague-born German-speaking Jewish painter, caricaturist, illustrator, graphic artist, and author of humorous picture books, best known for his work with Erich Kästner and his political cartoons.
15 works3 series
Warren Ellis
British comic-book writer, novelist, graphic novelist, and essayist known for cyberpunk, science fiction, horror, crime, and superhero works.
131 works20 series
Washington Irving
American author, essayist, historian, biographer, travel writer, and diplomat best known for The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., including “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
22 works2 series
Waubgeshig Rice
Waubgeshig Rice is an Anishinaabe and Canadian author and journalist from Wasauksing First Nation.
6 works1 series
Wendy MacNaughton
American artist, graphic journalist, illustrator, and educator known for visual nonfiction and documentary drawing.
6 works1 series
Wesley Chu
Wesley Chu is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of science fiction and fantasy novels, including the Tao, Io, Time Salvager, War Arts Saga, and Eldest Curses series.
14 works6 series
Wil Wheaton
American writer, memoirist, essayist, short-fiction author, graphic-work co-author, actor, and audiobook narrator.
12 works1 series
Wilhelm Grimm
German philologist, literary scholar, folklore collector, and editor of medieval German texts.
25 works0 series
Wilkie Collins
English novelist, playwright, short-story writer, essayist, and travel writer best known for The Woman in White and The Moonstone.
50 works0 series
Will Damron
Will Damron is an American author, actor, and award-winning audiobook narrator whose published fiction debut is the fantasy-adventure novel The Tercentennial Baron.
1 works1 series
Will Durant
American philosopher, historian, and writer best known for The Story of Civilization and The Story of Philosophy.
45 works1 series
Will Patton
American actor, playwright, audiobook narrator, and author of the memoir Lassitudes of Fire.
4 works0 series
Will Staehle
American book designer, illustrator, and visual artist who publishes authored postcard collections under the pseudonym Wilhelm Staehle.
2 works0 series
Will Wight
American fantasy author known for progression-fantasy, cultivation-fantasy, and science-fantasy novels.
27 works6 series
Willa Cather
American novelist, short-story writer, poet, journalist, and essayist known for fiction about migration, memory, artistic vocation, and life on the American Great Plains.
21 works0 series
William Faulkner
American novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and essayist known for modernist prose and Southern Gothic fiction.
51 works1 series
William Gibson
American-Canadian novelist and essayist widely regarded as a pioneer of cyberpunk science fiction.
19 works4 series
William Golding
English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate best known for Lord of the Flies.
20 works1 series
William Goldman
American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, memoirist, and essayist known for The Princess Bride, Adventures in the Screen Trade, and two Academy Award-winning screenplays.
35 works3 series
William Kent Krueger
American novelist and crime writer best known for the Cork O'Connor mystery series, set primarily in northern Minnesota.
28 works1 series
William L. Shirer
American journalist, war correspondent, historian, and author best known for The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and Berlin Diary.
17 works1 series
William L. Simon
American business and technology writer, screenwriter, and coauthor of bestselling nonfiction books.
19 works0 series
William Makepeace Thackeray
English novelist, satirist, essayist, poet, lecturer, and illustrator (1811–1863).
37 works1 series
William Peter Blatty
American novelist, screenwriter, film director, and producer best known for The Exorcist.
16 works1 series
William R. Forstchen
American historian, professor, and author of science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, alternate history, military history, and thrillers.
59 works14 series
William S. Burroughs
American novelist, essayist, memoirist, poet, and experimental writer associated with the Beat Generation and the cut-up technique.
77 works2 series
William Scott Wilson
American author, translator, and historian of Japanese literature, best known for his works on samurai culture, Zen, tea, and Japanese poetry.
5 works0 series
William Shakespeare
English playwright, poet, and actor active during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras.
44 works2 series
William T. Vollmann
American novelist, essayist, journalist, memoirist, and visual artist known for expansive historical fiction, reportage, moral inquiry, and photography.
35 works5 series
William Weaver
American writer, translator, opera critic, and biographer best known for his influential translations of modern Italian literature.
8 works0 series
William Wiegand
American novelist, mystery writer, and creative-writing professor (1928–2016).
4 works0 series
William Zinsser
American writer, editor, journalist, literary critic, and teacher best known for On Writing Well.
22 works0 series
Wilson Rawls
American children's author best known for two novels set in the rural Ozarks and Oklahoma.
2 works0 series
Won-pyung Sohn
South Korean novelist, filmmaker, and screenwriter known for socially engaged fiction about empathy, growth, and contemporary life.
13 works1 series