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Sarah Waters
Sarah Waters (born 1966, Wales) is a Welsh novelist, author of Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith, The Night Watch, The Little Stranger, and The Paying Guests; three-time Booker shortlistee, OBE 2019, known for lesbian neo-Victorian historical fiction.
Shivaji Sawant
Shivaji Sawant (शिवाजी सावंत, 1940–2002) was a Marathi novelist, called Mrityunjaykar for his debut Mrityunjaya (1967) on Karna; he also wrote Chhava on Sambhaji and Yugandhar on Krishna.
Victoria Hislop
Victoria Hislop, also known as Victoria Hamson, is a British novelist whose historical fiction set mostly in Greece has sold more than ten million copies, most famously The Island (2005).
Vrindavan Lal Verma
Vrindavan Lal Verma (वृंदावनलाल वर्मा, 1889–1969) was a Hindi novelist, short-story writer, and playwright from Jhansi, called the "Walter Scott" of India for his historical novels.
Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832), Scottish poet and novelist, popularized the historical novel with Waverley (1814) and Ivanhoe (1820); anonymous 'Author of Waverley' until 1827, ruined by 1826 publishing collapse, model for Cooper and Hawthorne.
Wang Dulu
Wang Dulu (王度庐, pen name of Wang Baoxiang, 1909–1977) was a Beijing-born Manchu wuxia novelist, one of the Republican-era Northern School masters, whose five-part Crane-Iron Series written in Qingdao 1938–1944 includes Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, later adapted by Ang Lee.
Wen Rui'an
Wen Rui'an (温瑞安), born Wen Liangyu in 1954, is a Malaysian-born wuxia novelist and poet ranked with Jin Yong and Gu Long among the four grandmasters of new wuxia fiction.
Wilbur Smith
Wilbur Addison Smith (1933–2021), Zambian-born South African adventure novelist, author of When the Lion Feeds and the Courtney, Ballantyne, and Ancient Egyptian series; over 140 million books sold in 30 languages.
Winston Graham
Winston Mawdsley Graham, English novelist (born Manchester, 1908 or 1910; died 2003), creator of the twelve Poldark novels of Cornwall (1945–2002) and author of Marnie, filmed by Hitchcock.
Yao Xueyin
Yao Xueyin (姚雪垠, born Yao Guansan, 1910–1999) was a Chinese novelist from Dengzhou, Henan, whose historical novel Li Zicheng won the first Mao Dun Literary Prize in 1982.
Zane Grey
Zane Grey (Pearl Zane Gray, 1872-1939), American dentist-turned-novelist, author of Riders of the Purple Sage; most successful American author of the 1920s and record-holding big-game fisherman.