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- W. B. YeatsIrish poet and playwright (1865–1939)
- W. H. AudenBritish-American poet (1907–1973)
- Wali Mohammed WaliIndian poet (1667–1707)
- Walt WhitmanAmerican poet, essayist and journalist (1819–1892)
- Walt Whitman's lectures on Abraham LincolnThe American poet Walt Whitman gave a lecture on Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of th
- Walter ScottScottish novelist (1771–1832)
- Wang WeiTang-dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter, and statesman
- Wanjikũ wa NgũgĩWanjikũ wa Ngũgĩ (born 1970s) is a Kenyan writer, who has lived and worked in Eritrea, Zim
- WaterbedA waterbed, water mattress, or flotation mattress is a bed or mattress filled with water.
- Weimar ClassicismGerman literary and cultural movement, whose practitioners established a new humanism
- Weird menaceWeird menace is a subgenre of horror fiction and detective fiction that was popular in the
- Western literatureLiterature written in the context of Western culture in the languages of Europe
- What I Talk About When I Talk About RunningWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running (走ることについて語るときに僕の語ること, Hashiru Koto ni Tsuite K
- William BlakeEnglish poet and artist (1757–1827)
- William FaulknerAmerican writer (1897–1962)
- William GoldingBritish novelist, poet, and playwright (1911–1993)
- William HayleyWilliam Hayley (9 November 1745 – 12 November 1820) was an English writer, best known as t
- William ShakespeareEnglish playwright and poet (1564–1616)
- William WordsworthEnglish Romantic poet (1770–1850)
- WitForm of humour
- Wizard of the CrowWizard of the Crow (Gikuyu: Mũrogi wa Kagogo) is a 2006 novel written by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
- Wole SoyinkaNigerian playwright, poet and novelist
- Word ladderWord ladder (also known as Doublets, word-links, change-the-word puzzles, paragrams, ladde
- Wu Shuang PuChinese book of biographies of heroes (1694)