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. . --Morris King (Mo) Udall (19221998) American politician and professional basketball player. _Too Funny to be President_ [1988] --Bob Uecker (1935 ) American Major League baseball player, broadcaster, and actor. --Walter Ulbricht (18931973) German Communist leader and after WW II head of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). --Samuel Ullman (18401924) American businessman and poet. --Tracey Ullman (1959 ) British comedienne, actress, and singer. --Miguel de Unamuno (18641936) Spanish author, philosopher, and educator. --Johnny Unitas (19332002) American professional football player. --John Updike (1932 ) American novelist and short-story writer. --Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov [19212004] British entertainer, writer, and humanitarian. --- --Ritchie Valens (19411959) American rock and roll singer. --Paul Valιry (18711945) French poet. "La Jeune Parque" {The Young Fate} [1917] "Charmes ou poθmes" [1922] "Mauvaises Pensιes et Autres" [1941] --Lorenzo Valla (14051457) Italian humanist historian and philosopher. _Opera Omnia_ --Jimmy Valvano (19461993) American college-basketball coach. --Abigail Van Buren (1918 ) American advice columnist. --Laurens van der Post (19061996) South African explorer and writer. _The Lost World of the Kalahari_ [1958] --Carl Van Doren (18851950) American writer and educator. --Mark Van Doren (18941972) American poet, writer, and teacher. --Henry Van Dyke (18521933) American clergyman, educator, and author. _Fisherman's Luck_ [1899] --Vincent van Gogh (18531890) Dutch painter. --Arthur T. Vanderbilt II (1950 ) _Golden Days_ [1998] --Cornelius Vanderbilt (17941877) American shipping and railroad magnate. --William H. Vanderbilt (18211885) American railway magnate. --Marquis de Vauvenargues (17151747) French moralist and essayist. _Reflections and Maxims_ [1746], tr. F.G. Stevens [1940] --Balint Vazsonyi (19362003) Hungarian-born American concert pianist and political philosopher. - --Bill Veeck (19141986) Baseball team owner & innovator. --Vegetius [Flavius Vegetius Renatus] (fl. c. 375) Roman military expert. --Eleuthιrios Venizιlos (18641936) Prime minister of Greece [1910-1915, 1917, 1924, 1928-1930]. --Tobias Venner (15771660) --Paul Verlaine (18441896) French poet. --Jules Verne (18281905) French author. _The Future of the Submarine_ [1904] --George Graham Vest (18301904) American lawyer and U.S. Senator [18791903]. --Louis Veuillot (18131883) French journalist and man of letters. - --Queen Victoria (18191901) Queen of the United Kingdom [1837-1901]. --Gore Vidal (1925 ) American writer. --Pancho Villa (Doroteo Arango Arambula) (18771923) Mexican revolutionary. --George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (16281687) English politician. _The Rehearsal_ [written 1663, performed 1671] --John H. Vincent (18321920) American bishop. --Leonardo da Vinci - see Leonardo --Frederick Moore Vinson (18901953), 13th Chief Justice of the United States (19461953). --Bobby Vinton (1935 ) American singer. --Judith Viorst (1931 ) American author. _It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty and Other Tragedies of Married Life_ [1968] --Virgil (7019 B.C.) Roman poet. _Aeneid_ _Georgics_ --Terry Virgo _Men Of Destiny_ [1987] --Margaret Visser South-Aftican born Canadian professor, writer, and broadcaster. --Orderic Vitalis (1075c. 1142) English chronicler and monk. --Vivekananda (18631902) Hindu spiritual leader and reformer. - --Edmund H. Volkart (19191992) _The Angel's Dictionary: A Modern Tribute to Ambrose Bierce_ [1986] --Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (16941778) French writer and philosopher. _Sept discours en vers sur l'homme_ [1738] _Zadig_ [1747], tr. H.I. Woolf [1949] _Candide_ [1759] tr. Richard Aldington [1929] _Philosophical Dictionary_ [1764], tr. Wade Baskin [1961] & by Theodore Besterman [1971] _Lettres Philosophiques_, Biographies and/or related books about: Joseph McCabe _Selected Works of Voltaire_ [1911] --Friedrich A. von Hayek (18991992) Austrian-born British economist; co-winner of the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. _The Road to Selfdom_ [1944] --Bettina von Hutten (18741957) _The Halo_ [1907] --John von Neumann (19031957) Hungarian-born American mathematician. --Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (19222007) American novelist and short-story writer. _Breakfast of Champions_ [1973] _Slapstick_ [1975] - --Peter De Vries (19101993) American editor and novelist. --- --Jane Wagner (1935 ) American playwright. _The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe_ [1985] --John Wagner (1949 ) British comics writer. --Richard Wagner (18131883) German composer. --John Wain (19251994) English poet, novelist, and critic. --Loudon Wainwright III (1946 ) American songwriter. --Diane Wakoski (1937 ) American poet. "The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems" --Derek Walcott (1930 ) West Indian poet and dramatist; winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Poetry. --Lech Walesa (1943 ) Polish trade unionist and statesman. --Alice Walker (1944 ) American Writer, poet, and essayist. _The Color Purple_ [1982] --Gabrielle Walker _Snowball Earth: The Story of the great global catastrophe that spawned life as we know it_ [2003] --Jimmy Walker (18811946) Mayor of New York City [19251932]. --John Brisben Walker (18471931) American editor and publisher of _Cosmopolitan_ [18891905]. --Stanley Walker (18981962) American journalist. _City Editor_ [1934] --David Foster Wallace (1962 ) American writer. --Edgar Wallace (18751932) English thriller writer. --George Wallace (19191998) American Democratic politician. --William Ross Wallace (18191881) American poet. --Graham Wallas (18581932) British political scientist. _The Art of Thought_ [1926] --Horace Walpole (17171797) English writer and connoisseur. _Letters_ --Robert Walpole (16761745) English Whig statesman. --Izaak Walton (15931683) English writer. _The Compleat Angler_ [1653] --Sam Walton (19181992) Founder of Wal-Mart Stores. --Wang Yang-ming (14721529) Chinese scholar-official whose Idealistic interpretation of Neo-Confucianism influenced philosophical thinking in East Asia for centuries (E.B.). --Artemus Ward [Charles Farrar Browne] (18341867) American humorist and writer. _Artemus Ward's Lecture_ [1866] _The Works of Artemus Ward_ [1898] _Natural History_ --William Arthur Ward (19211994) American college administrator and author. --Andy Warhol (19271987) American artist. _Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)_ [1975] --Charles Dudley Warner (18291900) American newspaperman, author, editor, and publisher. _My Summer in a Garden_ [1871] --Harry Morris Warner [Hirsch Eichelbaum] (18811958) Polish-born co-founder of Warner Brothers. --Jack Warner [John Leonard Eichelbaum] (18921978) Canadian-born co-founder of Warner Brothers. --Sylvia Townsend Warner (18931978) English writer. --Earl Warren (18911974) American jurist, the 14th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [19531969]. --Frank Warren (1952 ) British boxing promoter. --Lemuel K. Washburn --Booker T. Washington (18561915) African-American educator. _Up From Slavery_ [1901] --Craig Washington (1941 ) American politician. --George Washington (17321799) American general and commander-in-chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution [17751783] and first president of the United States [17891797]. --Martha Washington (17311802) The first First Lady of the U.S.. --Benjamin Waterhouse (17541846) American physician and scientist, a pioneer in smallpox vaccination {EB}. --Muddy Waters (1915-1983) American blues singer and guitarist. --Bill Waterson II (1958 ) American cartoonist, creator of "Calvin and Hobbes." --Grace V. Watkins (1905?) American poet and essayist. --Bubba Watson (1978 ) American professional golfer. --Lillian Eichler Watson --Lyall Watson (1939 ) South African born botanist, biologist, and author. --Thomas Watson (16201686) English Puritan preacher and author. --Thomas Edward Watson (18561922) American politician. --Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (18741956) American industrialist and founder of IBM. --Kenneth E.F. Watt (1929 ) --Bill Watterson (1958 ) American comics writer. _Calvin and Hobbes: The Revenge of the Baby-Sat_ [1991] --Isaac Watts (16741748) English hymn writer. _Logic On the Right use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth_ [1724] --Evelyn Waugh (19031966) Engish novelist. --Francis Wayland, D.D. (17961865) Baptist minister, President of Brown University, professor of moral philosophy, and author. --John Wayne [Marion Michael Morrison] (19071979) American motion-picture actor. - --Weather Underground --Earl Weaver (1930 ) American major-league baseball manager. --Beatrice Webb [nιe Potter] (18581943) English Socialist economist. --Jack Webb (19201982) American actor. --Mary Webb (18811927) English novelist. _Precious Bane_ [1924] --Carl Maria von Weber (17861826) German composer and opera director. --Daniel Webster (17821852) American orator and politician. --John Webster (c.1580c.1625) English dramatist. _The White Devil_ [1612] --Noah Webster (17581843) American lexicographer. --George Weigel (1951 ) American author. --Steven Weinberg (1933 ) American theoretical physicist and winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics. _The First Three Minutes_ [1977] --Matt Weinstein _Managing to Have Fun_ [1997] --Victor Weisskopf (19082002) Austrian-American physicist. _The Privilege of Being a Physicist_ --Johnny Weissmuller (19041984) Romainian-born American Olympic swimmer and motion picture actor. --Johnny Weissmuller, Jr. (19402006) American author. --Kevin Welch (1955 ) American singer and songwriter. --Fay Weldon (1931 ) British novelist. _The Heart of the Country_ --Orson Welles (19151985) American motion-picture actor, director, producer, and writer. Biographies and/or related books about: Simon Callow _Orson Welles_ [1996] --Duke of Wellington (17691852) British soldier and statesman. --Carolyn Wells (18621942) American writer. --H.G. Wells (18661946) English novelist. --John Wells (19361998) British actor, comedian, and writer. --Rollin J. Wells (18481923) American lawyer and poet. --Irvine Welsh (1957 ) Scottish novelist. "Trainspotting" [1994] --Barrett Wendell (18551921) American educator and author. _Barrett Wendell and his Letters_ [1924] --Franz Werfel (18901945) German poet, playwright, and novelist. _Das Lied Von Bernadette_ [1941] --Fredric Wertham (18951981) German-born American psychiatrist. _A Sign for Cain: An Exploration of Human Violence_ [1966] --Arnold Wesker (1932 ) English dramatist. --John Wesley (17031791) English preacher and founder, with his brother Charles, of the Methodist movement in the Church of England. --Samuel Wesley (16621735) English clergyman and poet. --Jassamyn West (19021984) American novelist and screenwriter. --Mae West (18931980) American stage and film actress. Biographies and/or related books about: Joseph Weintraub _The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West_ [1967] Fergus Cashin _Mae West_ [1981] --Morris Langlo West (19161999) Australian novelist. _The Shoes of the Fisherman_ [1963] --Nathaniel West [Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein] (19031940) American author and screenwriter. _The Day of the Locust_ [1939] --Dame Rebecca West [Cecily Isabel Fairfiield] (18921983) British-Irish journalist, novelist, and critic. --Vita Sackville-West (18921962) English writer and landscape gardener. _The Edwardians_ [1930] --Donald E. Westlake (1933 ) Mystery writer. --William Westmoreland (19142005) American soldier. _A Soldier Reports_ [1976] --Edward Weston (18861958) American photographer. - --Edith Wharton [nθe Jones] (18621937) American novelist. _The Age of Innocence_ [1920] --Richard Whately (17871863) English philosopher and theologian. --John A. Wheeler (1911 ) American theoretical physicist. --Allen Wheelis (19152007) American psychoanalyst. --James Whistler (18341903) American artist. --E.B. [Elwyn Brooks] White (18991985) American essayist and literary stylist. _One Man's Meat_ [1944] _The Wild Flag_ [1946] _Here Is New York_ [1949] _The Second Tree from the Corner_ [1954] _Essays of E.B. White_ [1977] --Stewart E White (18731946) American author. --T. H. [Terence Hanbury] White (19061964) English novelist. _The Sword in the Stone_ [1938] --Theodore H. White (19151986) American journalist, historian, and novelist. _The Making of the President, 1960_ [1961] {winner of the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction} _The Making of the President, 1964_ [1965] --William Allen White (18681944) American journalist know as the 'Sage of Emporia.' --William Hale WhiteAlfred North Whitehead (18611947) British philosopher and mathematician. _Dialogues_ [1954] --Katherine Whitehorn (1928 ) English journalist. --George Whiting (18841943) American songwriter. --Gough Whitlam (1916 ) Australian Prime Minister [19721975]. --Walt Whitman (18191892) American poet. _Leaves of Grass_ [18551892] Biographies and/or related books about: Horace Traubel _Walt Whtiman's Camden Conversations_, ed. Walter Teller [1973] --John Greenleaf Whittier (18071892) American poet. "Maud Miller" [1854] --Faith Whittlesey (1939 ) American diplomat. --Charlotte Whitton (18961975) Canadian writer and politician. --William H. Whyte (19171999) American sociologist and journalist. --George Whyte-Melville (18211878) Scottish novelist and poet. _Katerfelto: A Story of Exmoor_ [1875] - --Tom Wicker (1926 ) American journalist. --Anna Wickham [Edith Alice Mary Harper] (18841947) British poet. --Ann Widdecombe (1947 ) British Conservative politician. --Warren W. Wiersbe Bible conference teacher and author. --Eliezer [Elie] Wiesel (1928 ) Romanian Jew and Holocaust survivor. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. _A Beggar in Jerusalem_ [1970] _A Jew Today_, tr. Marion Wiesel [1978] --Simon Wiesenthal (19082005) Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter. --Ray Lyman Wilbur (18751949) Medical doctor and president of Stanford University. --Ella Wheeler Wilcox (18501919) American author and poet. _New Thought Pastels_ [1906] --Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. _The Canterville Ghost_ [1887] _The Portrait of Mr. W.H._ [1889] _The Picture of Dorian Gray_ [1891] _Intentions_ [1891] _Lady Windermere's Fan_ [1892] _A Woman of No Importance_ [1893] _An Ideal Husband_ [1895] _The Importance of Being Earnest_ [1895] _The Ballad of Reading Gaol_ [1898] Biographies and/or related books about: Richard Ellmann _Oscar Wilde_ [1988] Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis {ed.} _Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde_ [2001] --Billy Wilder (19062002) Austrian-born American film director and screenwriter. --Thornton Wilder (18971975) American novelist and dramatist. _Our Town_ [1938] _The Skin of Our Teeth_ [1942] _The Matchmaker_ [1954] --Kaiser Wilhelm II (18591941) German emperor and king of Prussia [1888-1918]. --John Wilkes (17251797) English journalist and politician. --Wendell Wilkie (18921944) American lawyer and the Republican nominee for the 1940 presidential election (won by FDR). _One World_ [1943] --George F. Will (1941 ) American columnist. _The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions_ [1982] --Clough Williams-Ellis (18831978) British architect. --Edward Bennett Williams (19201988) American lawyer. _One Man's Freedom_ [1962] --Hank Williams (19231953) American songwriter and singer of country music. --Robin Williams (1952 ) American actor. --Sarah Williams (18371868) American poet. "The Old Astronomer to his Pupil" --Tennessee Williams [Thomas Lanier Williams] (19111983) American dramatist. "A Streetcar Named Desire" [1947] "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" [1955] --Walter E. Williams (1936 ) American Professor of economics and journalist. --Eric Willmot (1936 ) Australian author. _Australia The Last Experiment_ [1987] --Robert Aris Willmott (18091863) English editor and author. --Furnley Maurice [pseudonym of Frank Leslie Thomas Wilmot] (18811942) Australian poet. --Earl Wilson (19071987) American newspaper columnist. --Edmund Wilson (18951972) American writer, critic and social commentator. --Edward O. Wilson (1929 ) American entomologist and biologist. --Sir Harold Wilson (19161995) English politician who was prime minister of the United Kingdom [19641970] & [19741976]. --Harry Leon Wilson (18671939) American novelist and playwright. _The Spenders_ [1902] --Sloan Wilson (19202003) American author. --Woodrow Wilson (18561924) American Democratic statesman and President [19131921]. --Erastus Wiman (18341904) Canadian industrialist. --Walter Winchell (18971972) American journalist. --Oprah Winfrey (1954 ) American TV host and businesswoman. --Shelley Winters (19222006) American actress. --Jeanette Winterson (1959 ) English novelist and critic. _The Passion_ [1987] --Anita Wise Stand-up comedienne and writer. --William Van Dusen Wishard Author, head of World Trends Research. --Owen Wister (18601938) American writer of western novels. _The Virginian_ [1902] --Ludwig Wittgenstein (18891951) Austrian philosopher. _Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [1922] _Culture and Value_ _The Black Day_ - --P.G. [Pelham Grenville] Wodehouse (18811975) English humorist; American citizen from 1955. _A Gentleman of Leisure_ [1910] _The Inimitable Jeeves_ [1923] _Meet Mr. Mulliner_ [1927] _Very Good, Jeeves_ [1930] _Blandings Castle and Elsewhere_ [1935] _The Luck of the Bodkins_ [1936] _Money in the Bank_ [1946] --Humbert Wolfe (18851940) Italian-born British poet, man of letters and civil servant. --James Wolfe (17271759) British general. --Thomas Wolfe (19001938) American novelist. _Of Time and the River_ [1935] _The Web and the Rock_ [1939] _You Can't Go Home Again_ [1940] --Tom Wolfe (1931 ) American journalist and novelist. _Mauve Gloves and Madmen_ [1976] _The Right Stuff_ [1979] _In Our Time_ [1980] _The Bonfires of the Vanities_ [1987] _A Man In Full_ [1998] _Hooking Up_ [2000] --Mary Wollstonecraft (17591797) English feminist. _A Vindication of the Rights of Woman_ [1792] _Letters Writtein during a Short Residence in Sweden_ [1796] --Lee Ann Womack --John Wood (17041754) English architect. --Joanne Woodward (1930 ) American actress. --Samuel Woodworth (17851842) American journalist, dramatist, and poet. --Sheb Wooley (19212003) American character-actor and singer. --Virginia Woolf (18821941) English novelist. _Jacob's Room_ [1922] _A Room of One's Own_ [1929] --Alexander Woollcott (18871943) American dramatic and literary critic. --Sir (Charles) Leonard Woolley (18801960) British archaelogist. _Digging up the Past_ [1930] --R. James Woolsey (1941 ) Director of the CIA (19931995). --William Wordsworth (17701850) English poet. --Henry Wotton (15681639) English poet and diplomat. --Herman Wouk (1915 ) American novelist. _The Caine Mutiny_ [1951] Winner of the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for Literature. - --Fay Wray (19072004) American film actress. --Clark Wright (19th cent. American soldier and clergyman.) --Frances Wright [Fanny Wright] (17951852) Scottish-born American social reformer. _Views of Society and Manners in America_ [1821] --Frank Lloyd Wright (18671959) American architect. _An Autobiography_ [1932] --Jim Wright Jr. (1922 ) American politician. --Orville Wright (18711948) American aviation pioneer. --Steven Wright (1955 ) American writer and actor. --Wilbur Wright (18671912) American aviation pioneer. - --Harry Wu (1937 ) Chinese-born American political activist. - --William Wycherley (c.16401716) English dramatist. _The Plain Dealer_ [1677] --Elinor Wylie (18851928) American poet and novelist. --Jane Wyman [Sarah Jane Fulks] (19142007) American actress. --Tammy Wynette (1942 ) American country singer. --- --St. Francis Xavier (15061552) Roman Catholic missionary. Biographies and/or related books about: H.J. Coleridge _The Life and Letters of St. Francis Xavier_ [1886] --Xenocrates (c.395314 B.C.) Greek philosopher. --Xenophon (c.430352 B.C.) Athenian historian. --Xenophanes (c. 560478 B.C.), Greek philosopher and poet. --Xerxes I (519 B.C.465 B.C.) Persian king [486465 B.C.]. --- --Yamamoto Isoroku (18841943) Japanese naval officer who conceived of the surprise attack on the U.S. naval base of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. --Yamamoto Tsunetomo (16591719) Japanese samurai. _Hagakure_ (Hidden in the Leaves)_ [1716] now known as __The Book of the Samurai_. --Lιon R. Yankwich (18881975) Rumanian-born American judge. --Yaroslav I {Yaroslav the Wise} (9801054) Grand prince of Kiev. --Thomas Russell Ybarra (18801971) American writer. --R.J. Yeatman (18971968) British writer. --William Butler Yeats (18651939) Irish poet and dramatist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. _Essays_ [1924] _The Winding Stair and Other Poems_ [1933] --Jack Yellen (18921991) Polish-born American songwriter. --Yi Sun-shin (15451598) Korean admiral and national hero whose naval victories were instrumental in repelling Japanese invasions of Korea in the 1590s. --Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak of Pshis'cha --Paramahansa Yogananda (18931952) Indian yogi and guru. --Yoshida Kenko (c. 1283c. 1350) Japanese poet and essayist. _Tsurezure-gusa_ (Essays in Idleness) [c. 1330] --Edward Young (16831765) English poet. _Night Thoughts_ [1742-1745] --G. M. Young (18821959) English historian. --Joe Young (18891939) American songwriter. --Henny Youngman (19061998) English-born American stand-up comedian. --- --Ravi Zacharias (1946 ) Indian-born Canadian theologian. --Carlos Ruνz Zafσn (1964 ) Spanish novelist. --Israel Zangwill (18641926) Jewish spokesman and writer. _The Melting Pot_ [1908] --Darryl F. Zanuck (19021979) American producer, writer, actor and director who headed 20th Century Fox. --Emiliano Zapata (18791919) Mexican revolutionary, champion of agrarianism, who fought in guerrilla actions during and after the Mexican Revolution [19111917]. --Frank Zappa (19401993) American rock musician and songwriter. _The Real Frank Zappa Book_ [1989] --Jeffrey Zaslow --Zeno of Cittium (333261) Greek philosopher. --Marshall Georgy Zhukov (18961974) Soviet military commander and politician. --Zig [Hilary Hinton] Ziglar (1926 ) American author and motivational speaker. --Philip G. Zimbardo (1933 ) American psychologist. --Johann Georg Zimmermann (17281795) Swiss philosophical writer and physician. --Karl Zinsmeister --Hans Zinsser (18781940) American bacteriologist. _Rats, Lice and History_ [1934] --William Zinsser (1922 ) American writer, editor, and teacher. --Hiller B. Zobel (1932 ) American judge. --Emile Zola (18401902) French novelist and critic. --Zoroaster (c. 628 B.C. c. 551 B.C.) Iranian religious reformer and founder of Zoroastrianism. --Gary Zukav --Adolph Zukor (18731976) Hungarian-born American founder of Paramount Pictures. end page | A - AZ | B - BL | BO - BZ | CA - CZ | DA - DZ | E - F | GA - GZ | HA - HZ | I - K | LA - LZ | M - N | O - Q | RA - RZ | SA - SZ | TA - TZ | U - Z | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | Photos | |
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