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--Morris King (Mo) Udall (1922—1998)
American politician and professional basketball player.
_Too Funny to be President_ [1988]

--Bob Uecker (b. 1935)
American Major League baseball player, broadcaster, and actor.

--Walter Ulbricht (1893—1973)
German Communist leader and after WW II head of
the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).

--Samuel Ullman (1840—1924)
American businessman and poet.

--Tracey Ullman (b. 1959)
British comedienne, actress, and singer.

--Miguel de Unamuno (1864—1936)
Spanish author, philosopher, and educator.

--Johnny Unitas (1933—2002)
American professional football player.

--John Updike (1932—2009)
American novelist and short-story writer.

--Urban II (c. 1035—1099)
Pope (1088—1099).

--Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov [1921—2004]
British entertainer, writer, and humanitarian.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Geoffrey Willans _Peter Ustinov_ [1957]

--Garrick Utley (b. 1939)
American TV journalist.
_You Should Have Been Here Yesterday_ [2000]

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--Ritchie Valens (1941—1959)
American rock and roll singer.

--Paul Valιry (1871—1945)
French poet.
"La Jeune Parque" (The Young Fate) [1917]
"Charmes ou poθmes" [1922]
"Mauvaises Pensιes et Autres" [1941]

--Lorenzo Valla (1405—1457)
Italian humanist historian and philosopher.
_Opera Omnia_

--Jimmy Valvano (1946—1993)
American college-basketball coach.

--Abigail Van Buren [Pauline Esther Friedman] (b. 1918)
American advice columnist.

--Laurens van der Post (1906—1996)
South African explorer and writer.
_The Lost World of the Kalahari_ [1958]

--Carl Van Doren (1885—1950)
American writer and educator.

--Mark Van Doren (1894—1972)
American poet, writer, and teacher.

--Henry Van Dyke (1852—1933)
American clergyman, educator, and author.
_Fisherman's Luck_ [1899]

--Vincent van Gogh (1853—1890)
Dutch painter.

--Arthur T. Vanderbilt II (b. 1950)
_Golden Days_ [1998]

--Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794—1877)
American shipping and railroad magnate.

--William H. Vanderbilt (1821—1885)
American railway magnate.

--Marcus Terentius Varro (116—27 B.C.)
Roman polymath and man of letters.

--Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715—1747)
French moralist and essayist.
_Reflections and Maxims_ [1746], tr. F.G. Stevens [1940]

--Balint Vazsonyi (1936—2003)
Hungarian-born American concert pianist and political philosopher.
_America's 30 Years War_ [1998]

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--Bill Veeck (1914—1986)
Baseball team owner & innovator.
_The Hustler's Handbook_ [1965]

--Vegetius [Flavius Vegetius Renatus] (fl. c. 375)
Roman military expert.

--Charles William Meredith van de Velde (1818—1898)
Dutch lieutenant, painter, and author.
_Narrative of a journey through Syria and Palestine in 1851 and 1852_ [1854]

--Eleuthιrios Venizιlos (1864—1936)
Prime minister of Greece [1910—1915, 1917, 1924, 1928—1930].

--Tobias Venner (1577—1660)

--Paul Verlaine (1844—1896)
French poet.

--Jules Verne (1828—1905)
French author.
_The Future of the Submarine_ [1904]

--George Graham Vest (1830—1904)
American lawyer and U.S. Senator [1879—1903].

--Louis Veuillot (1813—1883)
French journalist and man of letters.

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--Queen Victoria (1819—1901)
Queen of the United Kingdom [1837—1901].

--Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
American writer.
_Two Sisters: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel_ [1970]
_Conversations With Gore Vidal_ [1981]

--Peter Viereck (1916—2006)
American poet and historian.
_Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals_ [1953]

--Pancho Villa (Doroteo Arango Arambula)
(1877—1923)
Mexican revolutionary.

--George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
(1628—1687) English politician.
_The Rehearsal_ [written 1663, performed 1671]

--John H. Vincent (1832—1920)
American bishop.

--Leonardo da Vinci - see Leonardo

--Frederick Moore Vinson (1890—1953),
13th Chief Justice of the United States (1946—1953).

--Bobby Vinton (b. 1935)
American singer.

--Judith Viorst (b. 1931)
American author.
_It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty and Other Tragedies of Married Life_ [1968]

--Virgil (70—19 B.C.)
Roman poet.
_Aeneid_ [c. 29-19 B.C.]
_Georgics_

--Terry Virgo (b. 1940)
English bible teacher and author.
_Men Of Destiny_ [1987]

--Margaret Visser (b. 1940)
South-African born Canadian professor, writer, and broadcaster.
_The Way We Are_ [2000]

--Orderic Vitalis (1075—c. 1142)
English chronicler and monk.

--Vivekananda (1863—1902)
Hindu spiritual leader and reformer.

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--Edmund H. Volkart (1919—1992)
_The Angel's Dictionary: A Modern Tribute to Ambrose Bierce_ [1986]

--Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (1694—1778)
French writer and philosopher.
_Lettres philosophiques_ [1734]
_The Leningrad Notebooks_ [c. 1735—1750]
_Sept discours en vers sur l'homme_ [1738]
_Zadig_ [1747], tr. H.I. Woolf [1949]
_Candide_ [1759] tr. Richard Aldington [1929]
_Le Droit du Seigneur_ [5 acts, performed 1762, published 1763]
_Jeannot et Colin_ [1764]
_The Philosophical Dictionary_ [1764]
_L'Ingιnu_ [1767]
_Dialogues Between A, B, and C_ [1768]
_Le siθcle de Louis XIV_ [1779]
Biographies and/or related books about:
James Parton _Life of Voltaire_ [6th ed. 1889]
Evelyn Beatrice Hall [pseu. Stephen G. Tallentyre] _The Friends of Voltaire_ [1906]
Joseph McCabe _Selected Works of Voltaire_ [1911]

--Wernher von Braun (1912—1977)
German-born American rocket engineer.

--Friedrich A. von Hayek (1899—1992)
Austrian-born British economist. Co-winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Economics.
_The Road to Selfdom_ [1944]
_The Constitution of Liberty_ [1960]
_Economic Freedom and Representative Government_ [1973]
_Law, Legislation and Liberty_ (3 vol.) [1973]

--Bettina von Hutten (1874—1957)
_The Halo_ [1907]

--John von Neumann (1903—1957)
Hungarian-born American mathematician.

--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922—2007)
American novelist and short-story writer.
_Cat's Cradle_ [1963]
_Slaughterhouse-Five_ [1969]
_Breakfast of Champions_ [1973]
_Slapstick_ [1975]

--Johann Heinrich Voss (1751—1826)
German poet.

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--Peter De Vries (1910—1993)
American editor and novelist.

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--Sol Wachtler (b. 1930)
American judge.

--Charles Wadsworth (1814—1882)
American clergyman.

--Jane Wagner (b. 1935)
American playwright.
_The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe_ [1985]

--John Wagner (b. 1949)
British comics writer.

--Richard Wagner (1813—1883)
German composer.

--John Wain (1925—1994)
English poet, novelist, and critic.

--Loudon Wainwright III (b. 1946)
American songwriter.

--Tom Waits (b. 1949)
American singer and songwriter.

--Diane Wakoski (b. 1937)
American poet.
"The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems" [1971]

--Derek Walcott (b. 1930)
West Indian poet and dramatist; winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Poetry.

--Lech Walesa (b. 1943)
Polish trade unionist and statesman.

--Alice Walker (b. 1944)
American writer, poet, and essayist.
_The Color Purple_ [1982]
_The Temple of My Familiar_ [1989]

--Barbara G. Walker (b. 1930)
American author and feminist.
_The Skeptical Feminist: Discovering the Virgin, Mother, and Crone_ [1987]

--Gabrielle Walker
_Snowball Earth: The Story of the great global catastrophe ..._ [2003]

--Jimmy Walker (1881—1946)
Mayor of New York City [1925—1932].

--John Brisben Walker (1847—1931)
American editor and publisher of _Cosmopolitan_ [1889—1905].

--Stanley Walker (1898—1962)
American journalist.
_City Editor_ [1934]

--David Foster Wallace (1962—2008)
American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.
_A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments_ [1997]

--Edgar Wallace (1875—1932)
English thriller writer.

--George Wallace (1919—1998)
American Democratic politician.

--Irving Wallace (1916—1990)
American author and screenwriter.
_Square Pegs: Some Americans Who Dared to Be Different_ [1958]

--Lew Wallace (1827—1905)
American politician, general, and novelist.
_Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ_ [1880]

--William Ross Wallace (1819—1881)
American poet.

--Graham Wallas (1858—1932)
English political scientist.
_The Art of Thought_ [1926]

--Thomas "Fats" Waller (1904—1943)
American jazz musician and composer.

--Horace Walpole (1717—1797)
English writer and connoisseur.
_Letters_

--Robert Walpole (1676—1745)
English Whig statesman.

--Izaak Walton (1593—1683)
English writer.
_The Compleat Angler_ [1653]

--Sam Walton (1918—1992)
Founder of Wal-Mart Stores.

--Joseph Wambaugh (b. 1937)
American author.
_Hollywood Station_ [2006]

--John Wanamaker (1838—1922)
American businessman.

--Wang Yang-ming (1472—1529)
Chinese scholar-official whose Idealistic interpretation of Neo-Confucianism
influenced philosophical thinking in East Asia for centuries (E.B.).

--Max Warburg (1867—1946)
German banker.

--Artemus Ward [Charles Farrar Browne] (1834—1867)
American humorist and writer.
_Artemus Ward's Lecture_ [1869]
_The Works of Artemus Ward_ [1898]
_Natural History_

--William Arthur Ward (1921—1994)
American college administrator and author.
_Thoughts of a Christian Optimist_ [1968]

--Andy Warhol (1927—1987)
American artist.
_Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)_ [1975]

--Charles Dudley Warner (1829—1900)
American newspaperman, author, editor, and publisher.
_My Summer in a Garden_ [1871]
_Backlog Studies_ [1872]
_The Gilded Age_ [1873] (Co-authored with Mark Twain)

--Harry Morris Warner [Hirsch Eichelbaum] (1881—1958)
Polish-born co-founder of Warner Brothers.

--Jack Warner [John Leonard Eichelbaum] (1892—1978)
Canadian-born co-founder of Warner Brothers.

--Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893—1978)
English writer.

--Earl Warren (1891—1974)
American jurist, the 14th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1953—1969].

--Edward H. "Bull" Warren (1873—1945)
American legal scholar.

--Frank Warren (b. 1952)
British boxing promoter.

--Lemuel K. Washburn

--Booker T. Washington (1856—1915)
American educator, author, and orator.
_Up From Slavery_ [1901]

--Craig Washington (b. 1941)
American politician.

--George Washington (1732—1799)
American general and commander-in-chief of the colonial armies in the American
Revolution [1775—1783] and first president of the United States [1789—1797].
Biographies and/or related books about:
Aaron Bancroft _An Essay on the Life of George Washington_ [1807]
Jared Sparks (ed.) _The Writings of George Washington_ [12 vols.; 1833-37]

--Martha Washington (1731—1802)
The first First Lady of the U.S..

--Benjamin Waterhouse (1754—1846)
American physician and scientist, a pioneer in smallpox vaccination.

--Maxine Waters (b. 1938)
American politician.

--Muddy Waters (1915—1983)
American blues singer and guitarist.

--Bill Waterson II (b. 1958)
American cartoonist, creator of "Calvin and Hobbes."

--Grace V. Watkins (1905—1993)
American poet and essayist.

--Bubba Watson (b. 1978)
American professional golfer.

--John B. Watson (1878—1958)
American psychologist.
_Psychological Care of Infant and Child_ [1928]

--Lillian Eichler Watson
_Light From Many Lamps_ [1951]
_New Standard Book of Etiquette_ [1953]

--Lyall Watson (1939—2008)
South African born botanist, biologist, and author.

--Thomas Watson (1620—1686)
English Puritan preacher and author.

--Thomas Edward Watson (1856—1922)
American politician.

--Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (1874—1956)
American industrialist and founder of IBM.

--Thomas Watson, Jr. (1914—1993)
President of IBM from 1952 to 1971.

--Bill Watterson (b. 1958)
American comics writer.
_Calvin and Hobbes: The Revenge of the Baby-Sat_ [1991]

--Isaac Watts (1674—1748)
English hymn writer.
_Divine Songs for Children_ [1715]
_Logic On the Right use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth_ [1724]
_The Improvement of the Mind_ [1741]

--Evelyn Waugh (1903—1966)
English novelist.
_Decline and Fall_ [1928]

--Francis Wayland, D.D. (1796—1865)
Baptist minister, President of Brown University,
professor of moral philosophy, and author.

--John Wayne [Marion Michael Morrison] (1907—1979)
American motion-picture actor.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Ronald L. Davis _Duke: The Life and Image of John Wayne_ [1998]
Michael Turback _The John Wayne Code_ [2006]

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--Earl Weaver (b. 1930)
American major-league baseball manager.

--Beatrice Webb [nιe Potter] (1858—1943)
English Socialist economist.

--Jack Webb (1920—1982)
American actor.

--Mary Webb (1881—1927)
English novelist.
_Precious Bane_ [1924]

--Carl Maria von Weber (1786—1826)
German composer and opera director.

--Daniel Webster (1782—1852)
American orator and politician.

--John Webster (c.1580—c.1625)
English dramatist.
_The White Devil_ [1612]
_The Duchess of Malfi_ [1612—1613]

--Noah Webster (1758—1843)
American lexicographer.

--George Weigel (b. 1951)
American author.

--Jack Weinberg (b. 1940)
American political activist.

--Steven Weinberg (b. 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 (1908—2002)
Austrian-American physicist.
_The Privilege of Being a Physicist_ [1988]

--Johnny Weissmuller (1904—1984)
Romainian-born American Olympic swimmer
and motion picture actor.

--Johnny Weissmuller, Jr. (1940—2006)
American author.

--Joseph N. Welch (1890—1960)
American lawyer.

--Kevin Welch (b. 1955)
American singer and songwriter.

--Curt Weldon (b. 1947)
American politician.

--Fay Weldon (b. 1931)
British novelist.
_The Life and Loves of a She Devil_ [1983]
_The Heart of the Country_ [1987]

--Orson Welles (1915—1985)
American motion-picture actor, director, producer, and writer.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Joseph McBride _Orson Welles: Actor and Director_ [1977]
Simon Callow _Orson Welles_ [1996]

--Duke of Wellington (1769—1852)
British soldier and statesman.

--Carolyn Wells (1862—1942)
American writer.

--H.G. Wells (1866—1946)
English novelist.
_Apropos of Dolores_ [1938]

--John Wells (1936—1998)
British actor, comedian, and writer.

--Rollin J. Wells (1848—1923)
American lawyer and poet.

--Irvine Welsh (b. 1957)
Scottish novelist.
"Trainspotting" [1994]

--Barrett Wendell (1855—1921)
American educator and author.
M A De Wolfe Howe (ed.)_Barrett Wendell and his Letters_ [1924]

--Franz Werfel (1890—1945)
German poet, playwright, and novelist.
_Das Lied Von Bernadette_ [1941]

--Fredric Wertham (1895—1981)
German-born American psychiatrist.
_A Sign for Cain: An Exploration of Human Violence_ [1966]

--Arnold Wesker (b. 1932)
English dramatist.

--John Wesley (1703—1791)
English preacher and founder, with his brother Charles,
of the Methodist movement in the Church of England.

--Samuel Wesley (1662—1735)
English clergyman and poet.

--Jassamyn West (1902—1984)
American novelist and screenwriter.
_To See the Dream_ [1957]

--Mae West (1893—1980)
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]
George Eells & Stanley Musgrove _Mae West: A Biography_ [1982]
Maurice Leonard _Mae West: Empress of Sex_ [1992]

--Morris Langlo West (1916—1999)
Australian novelist.
_The Shoes of the Fisherman_ [1963]

--Nathaniel West [Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein] (1903—1940)
American author and screenwriter.
_The Day of the Locust_ [1939]

--Dame Rebecca West [Cecily Isabel Fairfiield] (1892—1983)
English journalist, novelist, and critic.
_The Thinking Reed_ [1936]

--Vita Sackville-West (1892—1962)
English writer and landscape gardener.
_The Edwardians_ [1930]

--Donald E. Westlake (1933—2008)
American mystery writer who has won the Edgar Award three times.

--William Westmoreland (1914—2005)
American soldier.
_A Soldier Reports_ [1976]

--Edward Weston (1886—1958)
American photographer.


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--Edith Wharton [nθe Jones] (1862—1937)
American novelist.
_The Age of Innocence_ [1920]

--Richard Whately (1787—1863)
English philosopher and theologian.

--John A. Wheeler (1911—2008)
American theoretical physicist.

--Allen Wheelis (1915—2007)
American psychoanalyst.

--Edwin Percy Whipple (1819—1886)
American essayist and critic.

--James Whistler (1834—1903)
American artist.
_The Gentle Art of Making Enemies_ [1890]

--E.B. [Elwyn Brooks] White (1899—1985)
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 (1873—1946)
American author.

--T. H. [Terence Hanbury] White (1906—1964)
English novelist.
_The Troll_ [1935]
_The Sword in the Stone_ [1938]

--Theodore H. White (1915—1986)
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 (1868—1944)
American journalist know as the
'Sage of Emporia.'

--William Hale White [pseud. Mark Rutherford] (1831—1913)
English novelist.
_The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford_ [3rd ed., 1889]

--Alfred North Whitehead (1861—1947)
British philosopher and mathematician.
_The Concept of Nature_ [1920]
_Dialogues_ [1954]

--William Whitehead (1715—1785)
English poet and playwright.

--Katherine Whitehorn (b. 1928)
English journalist.

--George Whiting (1884—1943)
American songwriter.

--Gough Whitlam (b. 1916)
Australian Prime Minister [1972—1975].

--Walt Whitman (1819—1892)
American poet.
_Leaves of Grass_ [1855—1892]
Biographies and/or related books about:
Horace Traubel _Walt Whtiman's Camden Conversations_, ed. Walter Teller [1973]

--Roger Whittaker (b. 1936)
British singer-songwriter.
_So Far, So Good_ [1986]

--John Greenleaf Whittier (1807—1892)
American poet.
"Maud Miller" [1854]

--Faith Whittlesey (b. 1939)
American diplomat.

--Charlotte Whitton (1896—1975)
Canadian writer and politician.

--William H. Whyte (1917—1999)
American sociologist and journalist.

--George Whyte-Melville (1821—1878)
Scottish novelist and poet.
_Katerfelto: A Story of Exmoor_ [1875]

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--Tom Wicker (b. 1926)
American journalist.

--Anna Wickham [Edith Alice Mary Harper] (1884—1947)
English poet.

--Ann Widdecombe (b. 1947)
British Conservative politician.

--"Wide World of Sports" [American TV show 1961—1998]

--Warren W. Wiersbe
Bible conference teacher and author.

--Eliezer [Elie] Wiesel (b. 1928)
Romanian Jew and Holocaust survivor; winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.
_The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident_ [1960]
_A Beggar in Jerusalem_ [1970]
_A Jew Today_, tr. Marion Wiesel [1978]

--Simon Wiesenthal (1908—2005)
Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter.
_Justice Not Vengeance: Recollections_ [1990]

--Ray Lyman Wilbur (1875—1949)
Medical doctor and president of Stanford University.

--Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850—1919)
American author and poet.
_Poems of Power_ [1901]
_New Thought Pastels_ [1906]

--Oscar Wilde (1854—1900)
Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet.
_The Canterville Ghost_ [1887]
_The Happy Prince and Other Tales_ [1888]
_The Portrait of Mr. W.H._ [1889]
_The Picture of Dorian Gray_ [1891]
_The Soul of Man Under Socialism_ [1891 essay]
_Intentions_ [1891]
_Lady Windermere's Fan_ [1892]
_A Woman of No Importance_ [1893]
_Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young_ [1894]
_An Ideal Husband_ [1895]
_The Importance of Being Earnest_ [1895]
_The Ballad of Reading Gaol_ [1898]
_De Profundis_ [1905]
Biographies and/or related books about:
_Epigrams & Aphorisms_ [pub. John W. Luce, Boston, 1905]
L.C. Ingleby _Oscar Wilde_ [1907]
Frank Harris _Oscar Wilde_ [2 vol. 1916—1918]
Francis Archibald Kelhead _Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas_ [1949]
Richard Ellmann _Oscar Wilde_ [1988]
Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis {ed.} _Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde_ [2001]
Joseph Bristow _Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend_ [2008]

--Billy Wilder (1906—2002)
Austrian-born American film director and screenwriter.

--Thornton Wilder (1897—1975)
American novelist and dramatist.
_Our Town_ [1938]
_The Skin of Our Teeth_ [1942]
_The Matchmaker_ [1954]

--Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859—1941)
German emperor and king of Prussia [1888—1918].

--John Wilkes (1725—1797)
English journalist and politician.

--Wendell Wilkie (1892—1944)
American lawyer and the Republican nominee
for the 1940 presidential election (won by FDR).
_One World_ [1943]

--George F. Will (b. 1941)
American columnist.
_The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions_ [1982]
_One Man's America_ [2008]

--Clough Williams-Ellis (1883—1978)
British architect.

--Edward Bennett Williams (1920—1988)
American lawyer.
_One Man's Freedom_ [1962]

--Hank Williams (1923—1953)
American songwriter and singer of country music.

--Robin Williams (b. 1952)
American actor.

--Sarah Williams (1837—1868)
American poet.
"The Old Astronomer to his Pupil"

--Tennessee Williams [Thomas Lanier Williams] (1911—1983)
American dramatist.
"A Streetcar Named Desire" [1947]
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" [1955]

--Walter E. Williams (b. 1936)
American Professor of economics and journalist.

--Eric Willmot (b. 1936)
Australian author.
_Australia: The Last Experiment_ [1987]

--Robert Aris Willmott (1809—1863)
English editor and author.

--Furnley Maurice [pseudonym of Frank Leslie Thomas Wilmot] (1881—1942)
Australian poet.

--Earl Wilson (1907—1987)
American newspaper columnist.

--Edmund Wilson (1895—1972)
American writer, critic and social commentator.

--Edward O. Wilson (b. 1929)
American entomologist and biologist.
_Naturalist_ [1994]

--Sir Harold Wilson (1916—1995)
English politician who was prime minister of the
United Kingdom [1964—1970] & [1974—1976].

--Harry Leon Wilson (1867—1939)
American novelist and playwright.
_The Spenders_ [1902]

--Sloan Wilson (1920—2003)
American author.
_What Shall We Wear to This Party?_ [1976]

--Woodrow Wilson (1856—1924)
American Democratic statesman and President [1913—1921].

--Erastus Wiman (1834—1904)
Canadian industrialist.
_Chances of Success_ [1893]

--Walter Winchell (1897—1972)
American journalist.

--Oprah Winfrey (b. 1954)
American TV host and businesswoman.

--Shelley Winters (1922—2006)
American actress.

--Jeanette Winterson (b. 1959)
English novelist and critic.
_The Passion_ [1987]

--Robert Charles Winthrop (1809—1894)
American lawyer, philanthropist, and Speaker of the
House of Representatives from 1847 to 1849.

--Anita Wise
Stand-up comedienne and writer.

--William Van Dusen Wishard
Author, head of World Trends Research.

--Owen Wister (1860—1938)
American writer of western novels.
_The Virginian_ [1902]

--Forest E. Witcraft (1894—1967)
American scouting administrator.

--Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889—1951)
Austrian philosopher.
_Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [1922]
_Culture and Value_ [1980]

--"The Wizard Of Oz" [1939 movie]

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--P.G. [Pelham Grenville] Wodehouse (1881—1975)
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]

--Terry Wogan (b. 1938)
Irish radio and television broadcaster.

--Humbert Wolfe (1885—1940)
Italian-born British poet, man of letters and civil servant.

--James Wolfe (1727—1759)
British general.

--Thomas Wolfe (1900—1938)
American novelist.
_Of Time and the River_ [1935]
_The Web and the Rock_ [1939]
_You Can't Go Home Again_ [1940]
Biographies and/or related books about:
John Skally Terry (ed.) _Thomas Wolfe's Letters to His Mother_ [1943]

--Tom Wolfe (b. 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 (1759—1797)
English feminist.
_A Vindication of the Rights of Woman_ [1792]
_Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden_ [1796]

--Lee Ann Womack (b. 1966)
American country music singer and songwriter.

--John Wood (1704—1754)
English architect.

--John Wood, the Younger (1728—1782)
English architect.
_A Description of Bath_ [1765]

--Victoria Wood (b. 1953)
British writer and comedienne,
_Mens Sana in Thingummy Doodah_ [1990]

--Joanne Woodward (b. 1930)
American actress.

--Samuel Woodworth (1785—1842)
American journalist, dramatist, and poet.

--Sir (Charles) Leonard Woolley (1880-1960)
British archaelogist.
_Digging up the Past_ [1930]

--Sheb Wooley (1921—2003)
American character-actor and singer.

--Virginia Woolf (1882—1941)
English novelist.
_Jacob's Room_ [1922]
_A Room of One's Own_ [1929]

--Alexander Woollcott (1887—1943)
American dramatic and literary critic.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Samuel Hopkins Adams _A. Woollcott, His Life and His World_ [1945]

--Sir (Charles) Leonard Woolley (1880—1960)
British archaelogist.
_Digging up the Past_ [1930]

--R. James Woolsey (b. 1941)
Director of the CIA (1993—1995).

--William Wordsworth (1770—1850)
English poet.

--Henry Wotton (1568—1639)
English poet and diplomat.

--Herman Wouk (b. 1915)
American novelist.
_Aurora Dawn_ [1947]
_The Caine Mutiny_ [1951]
Winner of the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for Literature.

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--Fay Wray (1907—2004)
American film actress.

--Clark Wright
(19th cent. American soldier and clergyman.)

--Frances Wright [Fanny Wright] (1795—1852)
Scottish-born American social reformer.
_Views of Society and Manners in America_ [1821]

--Frank Lloyd Wright (1867—1959)
American architect.
_An Autobiography_ [1932]
_The Future of Architecture_ [1953]

--Jim Wright Jr. (b. 1922)
American politician.

--Orville Wright (1871—1948)
American aviation pioneer.

--Steven Wright (b. 1955)
American writer and actor.

--Wilbur Wright (1867—1912)
American aviation pioneer.

--William Wrigley, Jr. (1861—1932)
American industrialist.

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--Harry Wu (b. 1937)
Chinese-born American political activist.

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--William Wycherley (c.1640—1716)
English dramatist.
_Love in a Wood_ [1672]
_The Plain Dealer_ [1677]

--Elinor Wylie, nιe Hoyt (1885—1928)
American poet and novelist.

--Jane Wyman [Sarah Jane Fulks] (1914—2007)
American actress.

--Tammy Wynette (b. 1942)
American country singer.

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--"The X-Files" [American TV show 1993—2002]

--St. Francis Xavier (1506—1552)
Roman Catholic missionary.
Biographies and/or related books about:
H.J. Coleridge _The Life and Letters of St. Francis Xavier_ [1886]

--Xenocrates (c.395—314 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.

--Xenophon (c.430—352 B.C.)
Athenian historian.

--Xenophanes (c. 560—478 B.C.),
Greek philosopher and poet.

--Xerxes I (519 B.C.—465 B.C.)
Persian king [486—465 B.C.].

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--Lιon R. Yankwich (1888—1975)
Romanian-born American judge.

--Yaroslav I {Yaroslav the Wise} (980—1054)
Grand prince of Kiev.

--Thomas Russell Ybarra (1880—1971)
Venezuelan-born American journalist and author.

--R.J. Yeatman (1897—1968)
British writer.

--William Butler Yeats (1865—1939)
Irish poet and dramatist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
_Essays_ [1924]
_The Winding Stair and Other Poems_ [1933]
_The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats_ [1935]

--Jack Yellen (1892—1991)
Polish-born American songwriter.

--Alex Yemenidjian (b. 1957)
Chief executive of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [1999—2005].

--Yi Sun-shin (1545—1598)
Korean admiral and national hero whose naval victories were
instrumental in repelling Japanese invasions of Korea in the 1590s.

--Yi-Fu Tuan (b. 1930)
Chinese-American biographer, educator, and author.
_Who Am I?_ [1999 ]

--Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak of Pshis'cha

--Paramahansa Yogananda (1893—1952)
Indian yogi and guru.

--Alvin York (1887—1964)
American soldier, famous as a World War I hero.

--Edward Young (1683—1765)
English poet.
_Love of Fame_ [1727]
_The Complaint: or, Night Thoughts_ [1742—1745]

--G. M. Young (1882—1959)
English historian.

--Joe Young (1889—1939)
American songwriter.

--Henny Youngman (1906—1998)
English-born American stand-up comedian.
_Take My Jokes- Please_ [1983]

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--Ravi Zacharias (b. 1946)
Indian-born Canadian theologian.

--Carlos Ruνz Zafσn (b. 1964)
Spanish novelist.

--Israel Zangwill (1864—1926)
Jewish spokesman and writer.
_The Melting Pot_ [1908]

--Darryl F. Zanuck (1902—1979)
American producer, writer, actor and director who headed 20th Century Fox.

--Emiliano Zapata (1879—1919)
Mexican revolutionary, champion of agrarianism, who fought in guerrilla
actions during and after the Mexican Revolution [1911—1917].

--Frank Zappa (1940—1993)
American rock musician and songwriter.
_The Real Frank Zappa Book_ [1989]

--Jeffrey Zaslow (b. 1958)
American journalist and author.

--Zeno of Cittium (333—261)
Greek philosopher.

--Marshall Georgy Zhukov (1896—1974)
Soviet military commander and politician.

--Zig [Hilary Hinton] Ziglar (b. 1926)
American author and motivational speaker.

--Philip G. Zimbardo (b. 1933)
American psychologist.

--Johann Georg Zimmermann (1728—1795)
Swiss philosophical writer and physician.
_Aphorisms and Reflections On Men, Morals And Things_ [1800]
_An Examination Of The Advantages Of Solitude_ [2 vols., 1808]

--Karl Zinsmeister

--Hans Zinsser (1878—1940)
American bacteriologist.
_Rats, Lice and History_ [1934]

--William Zinsser (b. 1922)
American writer, editor, and teacher.

--Hiller B. Zobel (b. 1932)
American judge.

--Ιmile Zola (1840—1902)
French novelist and critic.

--Zoroaster (c. 628 B.C. — c. 551 B.C.)
Iranian religious reformer and founder of Zoroastrianism.

--Gary Zukav

--Adolph Zukor (1873—1976)
Hungarian-born American founder of Paramount Pictures.


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