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Sites by, or about, authors of literature whose last names begin with W.
This category contains sites dealing with or relating to the Nobel Prize winning poet and playwright Derek Walcott of St. Lucia.
Web sites relating to the author, his work, and what other people have to say about the author and his work.
Hugh Walpole was born in New Zealand in 1884, the son of a Bishop. He came to England when he was five years old. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.He lived in Cumbria from 1924 until his death in 1941, where he wrote a great deal, including his Cumberland family saga 'The Herries Chronicle' ('Rogue Herries', 'Judith Paris', 'The Fortress', and 'Vanessa'). He also wrote the 15 volumes of his diaries.
He was knighted in 1938, three years before his relatively early death, June 1, 1941, of a heart attack brought on by over exertion doing volunteer war work in Keswick. He is buried in his beloved Cumberland, in Keswick churchyard.
Minette Walters - British author, born Bishop's Stortford, 1949.In less than ten years Minette has progressed from a struggling writer of short stories and romances, to become Britain's best-selling crime novelist.
Books include 'The Ice House', 'The Sculptress', and 'Acid Row'.
Category for English-language pages on Chinese author Annie Wang (born 1972).
Tang dynasty Chinese poet, born 701, died 761.
1829-1900 American editor and author.
Category for pages on American writer Irving Weinman.
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historian and author, Alison Weir.
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Born in 1951, Alison Weir is a prolific British author specializing in the historical genre. She is well known for her British royalty biographies.Authored books include "The Lady Elizabeth", "Katherine Swynford", "Innocent Traitor", "Isabella of France", "Henry VIII, King and Court", "Mary, Queen of Scots", "Eleanor of Aquitaine", "Elizabeth the Queen", "The Life of Elizabeth I", "Children of England", "Children of Henry VIII", "Lancaster and York", "Wars of the Roses", "The Princes in the Tower", "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" and "Britain's Royal Families".
Category for pages dealing with Native American author James Welch (*1940).
Category for American poet Marjorie Welish.
All sites related to Rebecca Wells.
Scottish novelist: author of Trainspotting, Ecstasy, The Acid House, Filth, Marabou Stork Nightmares, and more.
Mississippi writer particularly known for short stories, 1909-2001.
Sites related to Austrian poet, dramatist, and novelist Franz Werfel (1890-1945).
Eric Weule is a dad, husband, writer, and mail carrier in Souther California. "Repression" is the second book he has completed and the fifth one he started. The first book he wrote is special to him, but he will probably be the only person to ever read it. It is filled with the enthusiasm and anger of an eighteen-year-old who has yet to be blindsided by the facts of adulthood. The other three are equally important to him, but over the years they have changed. Two of the books are the basis of the larger conflict in "Repression", that of the Skeldon and Leskilt. Pieces of those two books will find their way into upcoming novels and short stories.
Stanley Weyman (pronounced Wyman) was the second of three sons born to solicitor Thomas Weyman and his wife Mary Maria Black on August 7, 1855, at 54 Broad Street, Ludlow, Shropshire. He attended King Edward VI Grammar School, Shrewsbury School (after age 16) and obtained a second class degree in Modern History at Christ Church, Oxford in 1877. As History Master at King's School, Chester, he served under his future brother-in-law, Rev'd. George Preston.In Ludlow in 1879 he read for the Bar and was called in 1881, to begin a disappointing law career with Weyman, Weyman and Weyman, the family law firm. He has been described as nervous, shy, short in height and a poor cross-examiner and was said to have angered a judge because of these shortcomings. It is to our blessing that Weyman's law career was unsatisfactory. As a result, he was able to devote his ample spare time to writing. James Payn, editor of Cornhill Magazine, encouraged him to tackle larger literary works. The House of the Wolf was serialized in the English Illustrated Magazine in 1888/89 and was published in 1890 after Weyman contacted literary agent, A. P. Watt. This first book received no less than six rejections by publishers. Two additional books, The New Rector and The Story of Francis Cludde, were published in 1891 and these allowed him to become a full-time novelist.
Sites related to writer Edith Wharton (1862-1937).
Sites pertaining to John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), American poet, essayist, and editor. Although Whittier is best known for his poetry, he also took an interest in folklore, and was popular as a hymnwriter.
Sites related to 19th-century Irish poet, dramatist, essayist and novelist Oscar Wilde.
WILLIAMS, Charles Walter Stansby (1886-1945), author and scholar, born in London. He was educated at St. Alban's School and at University College, London.
This category contains sites pertaining to the American author Terry Tempest Williams.
Category for Renate Wood, German-born American poet (*1938).
Category for sites on American Indian author Joan Leslie Woodruff.
Virginia Woolf, (1882-1941), English novelist, critic and essayist.
This category contains information pertaining to author Janny Wurts.This may include her artwork and writings as posted online, biographical and bibliographical information, sites related to fandom of her novels, or anything else Janny is or was directly involved in.
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