Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter W

Is an American poet. Born in Winnfield, Louisiana, Smith has studied at Washington University, Colum

Is an American poet. Born in Winnfield, Louisiana, Smith has studied at Washington University, Columbia University, and Cambridge University as a Rhodes scholar. He was appointed as Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress (the position now called Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress) from 1968 to 1970. A member of the Academy of Arts and Letters since 1975, Smith is noted for his translations for which he has garnered awards from the French Academy, Swedish Academy, and the Hungarian government.

Was a British playwright and author, best known for his play Alfie.County Mayo,Ireland his family mo

Was a British playwright and author, best known for his play Alfie.County Mayo,Ireland his family moved in 1914 to Bolton, Lancashire, England, where he attended Saint Peter and Paul's School. Naughton worked as a weaver, coal-bagger and lorry-driver before he started writing. Naughton's preferred environment was working class society. Although Alfie is the play with which he will always be associated, mostly because of the British film starring Michael Caine in the eponymous role, he was a prolific writer, with both plays, novels, short stories and children’s books to his name. At least two of his other plays have been transferred onto the cinema screen as well. These are Spring and Port Wine, which had James Mason starring in the role of Rafe Crompton, and The Family Way, which starred John Mills. His work also includes the novel One Small Boy (1957), and the collection of short stories The Goalkeeper's Revenge: And Other Stories (1961). Had many of his plays performed at the Octagon Theatre in Bolton town Centre and has a theatre named after him.

Is an American writer and journalist born and raised in Albany, New York. Many of his novels feature

Is an American writer and journalist born and raised in Albany, New York. Many of his novels feature the interaction of members of the fictional Irish-American Phelan family, and make use of incidents of Albany's history and the supernatural. Kennedy's works include The Ink Truck (1969), Legs (1975), Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (1978), Ironweed (1983, winner of 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; film, 1987), and Roscoe (2002).

Was an American novelist and editor.Maxwell was born in Lincoln, Illinois, and attended the Universi

Was an American novelist and editor.Maxwell was born in Lincoln, Illinois, and attended the University of Illinois and Harvard University. He was best known as the fiction editor of The New Yorker magazine for forty years (1936-1975), where he worked with writers such as Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, J.D. Salinger, John Cheever, Mavis Gallant, Frank O'Connor, Larry Woiwode, John O'Hara, Eudora Welty, and Isaac Bashevis Singer. As an editor Welty wrote of him: "For fiction writers, he was the headquarters."

Known as the Talmudic Wizard of Amsterdam and Dr. Doo-Wop, is the author of such works as The Virgin

Known as the Talmudic Wizard of Amsterdam and Dr. Doo-Wop, is the author of such works as The Virgin Sperm Dancer, Wet Dreams, Certain Radio Speeches of Ezra Pound and Natural Jewboy.

Is a journalist television producer and host, best known for the French breakfast television news sh

Is a journalist television producer and host, best known for the French breakfast television news show Télématin, broadcast on public broadcaster France 2.

An Australian author, best known for his Hong Kong-based "Yellowthread Street" mystery novels, some

An Australian author, best known for his Hong Kong-based "Yellowthread Street" mystery novels, some of which were used as the basis for a British TV series.In the Yellowthread Street series, the detectives of the Yellowthread Street police station in fictitious Hong Bay, Hong Kong -- DCI Harry Feiffer, a European born and raised in Hong Kong; Senior Inspector Christopher O'Yee, half-Chinese, half-Caucasian American, and all neurotic; and the ever-bickering team of Inspectors Auden and Spencer -- attempt to find the rational basis for inexplicable and seemingly bizarre crimes. For example, in 1988's Out of Nowhere, DCI Feiffer must figure out why in the pre-dawn hours, four people in a plate-glass-filled van with Chinese opera blaring out the tape deck were driving on the wrong side of a deserted motorway, miles from the nearest on-ramp, before dying in a violent collision with an oncoming lorry. And why, moments before the collision, did one of the passengers shoot the van driver

Was a South African writer, actor and journalist.He tried to facilitate non-racial progress in the a

Was a South African writer, actor and journalist.He tried to facilitate non-racial progress in the arts by making concerts and theatre available to Black audiences and tried to further the efforts of the Arts Federation and the Union of South African Artists both of which were non-racial.He wrote a number of short stories which were published in Drum. One such story The Situation derived from the Tsotsitaal (slang) for educated Blacks who rose above their station (i.e. situated above their station) but don't really fit into their new milieu. (Don Mattera mentioned this when describing the journalists. "There was a definite class division. We were in the streets, and they were in the desks. And we used to call such people situations.") [2]

Is an American writer and filmmaker. He wrote the novel The Exorcist (1971) and the subsequent scree

Is an American writer and filmmaker. He wrote the novel The Exorcist (1971) and the subsequent screenplay version for which he won an Academy Award.

Is an author, stage actor and comedian. He wrote and published his first poem at seven and spent man

Is an author, stage actor and comedian. He wrote and published his first poem at seven and spent many of his childhood years telling fantastic stories to and talking for his three sisters and brother

Was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best-

Was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best-known and most popular authors, and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies is sometimes said to have detested. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate college at the University of Toronto.

Was an American poet, writer, and editor. He was the older brother of Stephen Vincent Benét.Benet's

Was an American poet, writer, and editor. He was the older brother of Stephen Vincent Benét.Benet's second (of four) wives was the American poet Elinor Wylie. Benet was also wed to Teresa France Thomson (d.1919) and to children's writer Marjorie Flack (18

Was an American author. The setting of many of his stories and plays was Fresno, California (sometim

Was an American author. The setting of many of his stories and plays was Fresno, California (sometimes under a fictional name), the center of Armenian-American life in California and where he grew up.

Was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. Much of Burrou

Was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. Much of Burroughs's work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from his experiences as an opiate addict, a condition that marked the last fifty years of his life. A primary member of the Beat Generation, he was an avant-garde author who affected popular culture as well as literature. In 1984, he was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

Was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language a

Was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist.[1] He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consi

Is a french classical composer and singer. He left school at 16 to study composition with teacher Yv

Is a french classical composer and singer. He left school at 16 to study composition with teacher Yves Margat (himself a student of Gabriel Fauré) and later harmony, fugue and counterpoint at the Paris conservatoire. He turned to pop music after hearing the Beatles. Since then, he has had a successful career both as a classical composer and as a pop singer. His works often mix both genres. For example, some of his songs include carefully crafted orchestral passages (the Baroque introduction to Le nouveau monde) as well as instruments that are seldom found in pop music (such as a horn in Les miroirs dans la boue and a clarinet in Fier et fou de vous).

Was an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of landscape gardening through the develop

Was an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of landscape gardening through the development of his estate, The Leasowes.Son of Thomas Shenstone and Anne Penn, daughter of William Penn of Harborough Hall, then in Hagley (now Blakedown), Shenst

Was an English poet.Somervile was the eldest son of a country gentleman, and was born at Edstone, Wo

Was an English poet.Somervile was the eldest son of a country gentleman, and was born at Edstone, Worcestershire. He was educated at Winchester College and at New College, Oxford. After his father's death in 1705 he lived on his estate, devoting himself e

Is one of the most influential American poets of the later 20th century.Merwin made a name for himse

Is one of the most influential American poets of the later 20th century.Merwin made a name for himself as an anti-war poet during the 1960's. Later, he would evolve toward mythological themes and develop a unique prosody characterized by indirect narration and the absence of punctuation. In the 80's and 90's, Merwin's interest in Buddhist philosophy and deep ecology also influenced his writing. He continues to write prolifically, though he also dedicates significant time to the restoration of rainforests in Hawaii, the state where he lives.

Is one of today’s Cuban rising stars, known on the small island but also throughout the world.Will

Is one of today’s Cuban rising stars, known on the small island but also throughout the world.William Vivanco saw himself more as a plastic artist as he spent most of his time drawing but the moment he got hold of a guitar and started playing, he understood that he was born to play music.

Was a South African Xhosa poet, translator, and journalist. He was a major nineteenth-century Xhosa

Was a South African Xhosa poet, translator, and journalist. He was a major nineteenth-century Xhosa writer, whose relatively short life saw him working as a wagonmaker, a clerk, a teacher, a translator of Xhosa and English, and a pastor.Gqoba attended the Mission School at Tyhume, followed by the Lovedale Institute. In May 1856 he was indentured as a wagonmaker, working in Lovedale, then in King William's Town for a year, and finally at Brownlee Station. In 1858 he was installed as an elder in Tiyo Soga's mission church at Mgwali.

Was a prominent abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian

Was a prominent abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian

Was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age

Was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads.

Was a Guinean novelist who wrote in French. His father was Lebanese Christian and his mother was a G

Was a Guinean novelist who wrote in French. His father was Lebanese Christian and his mother was a Guinean of Muslim heritage.Sassine was an expatriate African writer in France after leaving Guinea when it received independence under Sékou Touré. As a novelist he wrote of marginalized characters, but he became more optimistic on Toure's death. His novel Le jeune homme de sable has been regarded as among the best twentieth century African novels[1].

Was a Danish author, screenwriter, and humorist born in Fredensborg, Denmark.

Was a Danish author, screenwriter, and humorist born in Fredensborg, Denmark.