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Wang Fanzhi
Wang Fanzhi (王梵志) is the name attached to a corpus of about 390 plain, vernacular five-character poems of the Tang dynasty, preserved mainly in Dunhuang manuscripts.
Wang Pan
Wang Pan (王磐, c. 1470 to c. 1530) was a Ming dynasty sanqu poet, painter, and physician from Gaoyou, Jiangsu, known for the satirical song Chao Tianzi: On the Trumpet.
Wang Pengyun
Wang Pengyun (王鵬運, 1848 or 1849 – 1904) was a Qing dynasty ci poet and official from Lingui, Guangxi, remembered as the leading late-Qing ci master.
Wang Shifu
Wang Shifu (王實甫), given name Dexin, was a Yuan dynasty playwright from Dadu, present-day Beijing, whose five-book Romance of the Western Chamber is the most celebrated work of zaju drama.
Wang Shuo
Wang Shuo (王朔, born 1958) is a Chinese novelist and screenwriter whose comic, colloquial fiction about disaffected Beijing youth, labeled "hooligan literature," made him famous and controversial.
Wang Wen-hsing
Wang Wen-hsing (王文興; 1939–2023) was a Taiwanese modernist novelist who co-founded Modern Literature, taught at National Taiwan University for four decades, and became known for writing only 20 to 30 characters a day.
Wang Yisun
Wang Yisun (王沂孫) was a Chinese ci poet of the late Southern Song and early Yuan, known for object-chanting poems lamenting the fallen Song dynasty.
Wang Zengqi
Wang Zengqi (汪曾祺, 1920–1997) was a Chinese writer of fiction, essays, and drama, a disciple of Shen Congwen whose 1980 story Receiving the Rule won wide readership.
War poets
War poets are poets who write about war, a term applied above all to the British soldier-poets of the Western Front, including Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon.
Waryam Singh Sandhu
Waryam Singh Sandhu (ਵਰਿਆਮ ਸਿੰਘ ਸੰਧੂ; born 1945) is an Indian author of Punjabi short stories, known for Chauthi Koot, which won the 2000 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Washington Benavides
Washington Benavides (1930–2017) was a Uruguayan poet, critic, and teacher from Tacuarembó who published more than 25 books and was a central figure of the Grupo de Tacuarembó.
Washington Irving
Washington Irving (1783–1859), American author and diplomat, pseudonyms Diedrich Knickerbocker and Geoffrey Crayon; author of The Sketch Book, 'Rip Van Winkle,' 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,' and the 175-edition Columbus biography; first American to live by authorship.
Wassaf
Wassaf was a Persian historian of the Ilkhanid period, born in Shiraz around 1264, who wrote Tarikh-i Wassaf, a five-volume history of the Mongol Ilkhans.
Wazir Agha
Wazir Agha (وزیر آغا), 1922 to 2010, was a Pakistani Urdu poet, critic, and essayist who wrote over 40 books and edited the literary magazine Auraq for decades.
Website content writer
A website content writer researches, writes, and edits web copy such as blogs, pages, and guides, applying SEO and audience strategy. Distinct from copywriters and content strategists; US writers-and-authors employment is projected flat 2025-35 with AI dampening demand.
Wei Xi
Wei Xi (魏禧, 1624–1680 or 1681) was a Chinese essayist who refused to serve the Qing and ranked among the three great prose masters of the early Qing.
Wei Yingwu
Wei Yingwu (韦应物, c. 737 – c. 791), known as Wei Suzhou, was a Tang dynasty official and poet famed for tranquil landscape and pastoral verse.
Wellington Group
The Wellington Group was a grouping of poets active in Wellington, New Zealand, in the early 1950s, including James K. Baxter, Louis Johnson, and Alistair Te Ariki Campbell.
Wen Kang
Wen Kang (文康) was a Qing dynasty Manchu bannerman novelist, author of Ernü Yingxiong zhuan (The Story of Heroic Sons and Daughters), first printed in 1878.
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.
Wen Zisheng
Wen Zisheng (温子升, c. 495–547) was a Northern Wei writer and official, ranked with Xing Shao and Wei Shou as one of the Three Talents of the North.
Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry (1934–2026) was an American poet, novelist, essayist, and Kentucky farmer who wrote more than fifty books celebrating rural life and criticizing industrial agriculture.
Wendy Rose
Wendy Rose, born Bronwen Elizabeth Edwards in 1948, is an American poet and anthropologist of Hopi, Miwok, and European descent whose collection Lost Copper was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
Werewere Liking
Werewere Liking is a Cameroonian-born novelist, playwright, and performer based in Côte d'Ivoire since 1978, known for creating ritual theater and founding the Ki-Yi community in Abidjan in 1985.
Werkkreis Literatur der Arbeitswelt
Werkkreis Literatur der Arbeitswelt, also Werkkreis 70, is a German association of writers and working people, founded in Cologne in 1970 as a secession from the Dortmund Gruppe 61.
Werner Aspenström
Werner Aspenström (1918–1997) was a Swedish poet, essayist, and dramatist of the forties generation, a Swedish Academy member from 1981 to 1989, and one of Sweden's most widely read poets.
Werner Bergengruen
Werner Bergengruen (1892–1964) was a Baltic German novelist and poet best known for the anti-Nazi historical novel Der Großtyrann und das Gericht (1935); he was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Wespazjan Kochowski
Wespazjan Kochowski (1633–1700) was a Polish Baroque poet, historian, and soldier, a leading representative of Sarmatism who served King Jan III Sobieski as privileged historiographer.
Whitley Strieber
Whitley Strieber (born 1945) is an American author of the horror novels The Wolfen and The Hunger and of Communion (1987), the best-selling abduction account that made him ufology's most prominent experiencer.
Wilbert Awdry
Wilbert Awdry (Wilbert Vere Awdry, 1911–1997), English Anglican clergyman and railway enthusiast, created The Railway Series and Thomas the Tank Engine, writing 26 books set on the fictional Island of Sodor from 1945 to 1972, later the basis of the Thomas & Friends television series.