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Nicholas Wade, American journalist
Jane Wagner
Friedrich Waismann, Austrian philosopher
Ruth Wajnryb, Australian linguist
Derek Walcott
Lech Walesa
Amy Wallace, American writer
David Foster Wallace, American novelist and essayist
Edmund Waller, English poet and politician
Horace Walpole
Izaak Walton, English writer
Booker T. Washington
Evelyn Waugh, English novelist
Noah Webster, American lexicographer
Ernest Weekley, British philologist
Simone Weil
Max Weinreich
The Duke of Wellington
Carolyn Wells
Alonzo Westbrook, American journalist
William Whewell, English philospher, historian, and scientist
E. B. White, American essayist, novelist, and poet
Alfred North Whitehead, British mathematician and philosopher
Katharine Whitehorn
Walt Whitman, American poet
William Dwight Whitney, American philologist and writer
John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet
Benjamin Lee Whorf, American linguist and anthropologist
Anna Wickham
Elie Wiesel
Oscar Wilde
Thornton Wilder, American playwright and novelist
Michael Wilding
Andrew Wilkinson, British educationist and writer
George F. Will, American political columnist and writer
Tennessee Williams
William Carlos Williams
Josh Wilson, Australian journalist
Woodrow Wilson
Simon Winchester, English author
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born British philosopher
P. G. Wodehouse, English-born American novelist and humorist
Ron Wolfe, American journalist
Michael Wood, American academic and writer
Virginia Woolf, English novelist and essayist
William Wordsworth, British poet and essayist
Sir Peregrine Worsthorne
James Wright, American poet
Sir Thomas Wyatt, English poet and statesman
William Wycherley
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Dan Yashinsky, American-born storyteller and writer
W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and dramatist
Marguerite Yourcenar
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Frank Zappa
Zeno of Citium, Greek philosopher
Raymond Zhou, Chinese journalist
William Zinsser, American writer, editor, and teacher
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