20. yüzyıl yazarları listesi
Bu liste, 20. yüzyıl yazarlarının kısmi bir listesidir. Listede önemli yazarlar, şairler, oyun yazarları, filozoflar, sanatçılar, bilim adamları ve yazıp çizme işine önemli ve kayda değer katkıda bulunanlara yer verilmiştir.
A
- A. A. Milne
- A. E. Housman
- A. Manette Ansay
- A. R. Ammons
- A. R. Orage
- A. J. Cronin
- A. J. Liebling
- A. L. Kennedy
- A. S. Byatt
- Ada Jafarey
- Adrienne Rich
- Agatha Christie
- Ali Ahmet Sait Eşber ya da Adonis
- Alain Robbe-Grillet
- Alain-Fournier
- Alamgir Hashmi
- Alan Dean Foster
- Alan Furst
- Alan Moore
- Alan Paton
- Alan Sillitoe
- Albert Camus
- Albert Einstein
- Alberto Moravia
- Aldous Huxley
- Aleister Crowley
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Alessandro Baricco
- Alex Haley
- Alexander Blok
- Alexander Woollcott
- Alfred Bester
- Alfred Döblin
- Alfred Kinsey
- Alice Hoffman
- Alice Munro
- Alice Sebold
- Alice Walker
- Alistair MacLean
- Alistair McLeod
- Allan Bloom
- Allegra Goodman
- Allen Drury
- Allen Ginsberg
- Alvin Toffler
- Amadou Hampâté Bâ
- Amiri Baraka
- Amos Oz
- Amy Tan
- Anaïs Nin
- Anatole France
- Anchee Min
- André Breton
- Andre Dubus III
- André Gide
- André Malraux
- André Schwarz-Bart
- Andrei Bitov
- Andrey Platonov
- Andrew Vachss
- Angela Carter
- Angela Davis
- Anita Desai
- Anita Diamant
- Anita Loos
- Anita Shreve
- Ann Beattie
- Anna Akhmatova
- Anna Quindlen
- Anna Seghers
- Anne Frank
- Anne Lamott
- Anne Perry
- Anne Rice
- Anne Sexton
- Anne Tyler
- Annie Dillard
- Annie Proulx
- Ann-Marie MacDonald
- Anthony Burgess
- Anthony Powell
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Antonin Artaud
- Antonio Machado
- Anya Seton
- Archibald MacLeish
- Arnold Bennett
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Arthur Hailey
- Arthur Koestler
- Arthur Miller
- Arturo Uslar Pietri
- Astrid Lindgren
- Athol Fugard
- Audre Lorde
- Augusto Roa Bastos
- Ayn Rand
- Aziz Nesin
B
- B. Traven
- Barbara Cartland
- Barbara Erskine
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Barbara Pym
- Barbara W. Tuchman
- Barry Unsworth
- Basil Bunting
- Beatrix Potter
- Ben Okri
- Benjamin Spock
- Bernard Cornwell
- Bernard Malamud
- Bernard-Marie Koltès
- Bernhard Schlink
- Bertolt Brecht
- Bertrand Russell
- Beryl Bainbridge
- Betty Friedan
- Billie Letts
- Blaise Cendrars
- Bob Dylan
- Bob Monkhouse
- Bob Woodward
- Bobbie Ann Mason
- Bohumil Hrabal
- Booth Tarkington
- Boris Pasternak
- Boris Pilnyak
- Boris Vian
- Brendan Behan
- Bret Easton Ellis
- Bret Lott
- Brian O'Nolan
- Bruce Chatwin
- Bruce Jay Friedman
- Bryce Courtenay
- Buckminster Fuller
C
- C. J. Cherryh
- C. P. Snow
- C. S. Lewis
- C.G. Jung
- C.S. Forester
- Camilo José Cela
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sandburg
- Carlo Emilio Gadda
- Carlos Castaneda
- Carlos Fuentes
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Carol Shields
- Carolyn Chute
- Carson McCullers
- Cecelia Holland
- César Vallejo
- Chaim Potok
- Chang-Rae Lee
- Charles Bukowski
- Charles de Lint
- Charles Frazier
- Charles Nordhoff
- Charles Olson
- Charles Palliser
- Charles Reznikoff
- Charles Sorley
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Chinua Achebe
- Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni
- Christina Stead
- Christopher Hitchens
- Christopher Isherwood
- Chuck Palahniuk
- Cid Corman
- Clarice Lispector
- Claude Simon
- Clement Greenberg
- Clifford Odets
- Clive Cussler
- Colette
- Colin Wilson
- Colm Toibin
- Colson Whitehead
- Colum McCann
- Connie May Fowler
- Connie Willis
- Conrad Aiken
- Constantine P. Cavafy
- Cormac McCarthy
- Cornel West
- Countee Cullen
- Cynthia Ozick
- Czesław Miłosz
D
- D. H. Lawrence
- Dalton Trumbo
- Damon Runyon
- Dan Brown
- Dan Masterson
- Dan Simmons
- Daniil Kharms
- Daphne Du Maurier
- Dario Fo
- Dashiell Hammett
- David Eddings
- David Edgar
- David Foster Wallace
- David Gemmell
- David Guterson
- David Halberstam
- David Ignatow
- David James Duncan
- David Lodge
- David Malouf
- David Mamet
- David McCullough
- David Payne
- Dean Koontz
- Dee Brown
- Denise Levertov
- Dennis Potter
- Derek Walcott
- Diana Gabaldon
- Dino Buzzati
- Djuna Barnes
- Don DeLillo
- Donald Barthelme
- Donald Harington
- Donna Tartt
- Doris Betts
- Doris Lessing
- Dorothy Dunnett
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Dorothy Parker
- Dorothy Richardson
- Douglas Adams
- Douglas Coupland
- Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
- Dylan Thomas
E
- E. B. White
- E. E. Cummings
- E. L. Doctorow
- E. M. Forster
- E.R. Eddison
- Earl Hamner
- Edgar Cayce
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Edith Hamilton
- Edith Nesbit
- Edith Wharton
- Edmond Jabès
- Edmund Wilson
- Edna Ferber
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Edward Abbey
- Edward Albee
- Edwidge Danticat
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Eldridge Cleaver
- Elfriede Jelinek
- Elias Canetti
- Elie Wiesel
- Elinor Lipman
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Elizabeth Bowen
- Elizabeth Chadwick
- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
- Elizabeth Hardwick
- Elizabeth Jane Howard
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Ellen Glasgow
- Ellery Queen
- Elmore Leonard
- Elswyth Thane
- Émile Durkheim
- Emma Bull
- Emma Goldman
- Eric Ambler
- Erica Jong
- Erich Fromm
- Erich Maria Remarque
- Erle Stanley Gardner
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest J. Gaines
- Ernesto Sabato
- Ernst Jünger
- Ernst Toller
- Erskine Caldwell
- Eudora Welty
- Eugène Ionesco
- Eugene O'Neill
- Evelyn Waugh
- Ezra Pound
F-G
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Federico García Lorca
- Ferenc Molnár
- Fernando Pessoa
- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
- Flann O'Brien
- Flannery O'Connor
- Ford Madox Ford
- Forrest J. Ackerman
- Francis Ponge
- Frank Buck
- Frank Herbert
- Frank Norris
- Frank O'Connor
- Frank Wedekind
- Franz Kafka
- Frederick Forsyth
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- G. K. Chesterton
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Gabriela Mistral
- Gabriele d'Annunzio
- Gail Godwin
- Gao Xingjian
- Gary Snyder
- Gay Talese
- Gene Wolfe
- Georg Trakl
- George Bernard Shaw
- George Gurdjieff
- George Orwell
- George R. R. Martin
- George S. Kaufman
- George Seferis
- Georges Bataille
- Georges Perec
- Georges Simenon
- Gerald Durrell
- Gerald Green
- Gerhart Hauptmann
- Gerina Dunwich
- Germaine Greer
- Gertrude Stein
- Gil Scott-Heron
- Gillian Bradshaw
- Giuseppe Ungaretti
- Gloria Naylor
- Gore Vidal
- Grace Metalious
- Grace Paley
- Graham Greene
- Graham Swift
- Grantland Rice
- Grazyna Miller
- Gregory Corso
- Guillaume Apollinaire
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
- Guy Gavriel Kay
- Günter Grass
- Gwendolyn Brooks
H-I
- H. L. Davis
- H. L. Mencken
- H. P. Lovecraft
- H.G. Wells
- Halldór Laxness
- Hannah Arendt
- Hans Fallada
- Harlan Coben
- Harlan Ellison
- Harold Bloom
- Harold Lamb
- Harold Pinter
- Harold Robbins
- Harper Lee
- Harriet Doerr
- Harry Crosby
- Harry Mathews
- Harry Stephen Keeler
- Harry Turtledove
- Hart Crane
- Haruki Murakami
- Harvey Pekar
- Havelock Ellis
- Hayim Nahman Bialik
- Heiner Müller
- Heinrich Mann
- Helen Dunmore
- Helen Fielding
- Helen Zahavi
- Henri Bergson
- Henri Michaux
- Henry Green
- Henry James
- Henry Miller
- Henry Roth
- Herman Wouk
- Hermann Hesse
- Herta Müller
- Hilaire Belloc
- Hilary Mantel
- Hilda Doolittle (H. D.)
- Horton Foote
- Howard Bahr
- Howard Fast
- Howard Norman
- Hubert Selby
- Hugh MacDiarmid
- Hunter S. Thompson
- I. F. Stone
- Iain Banks
- Iain Pears
- Ian Fleming
- Ian McEwan
- Ida M. Tarbell
- Ilja Ehrenburg
- Imre Kertész
- Ingeborg Bachmann
- Ira Levin
- Irène Némirovsky
- Iris Murdoch
- Iris Rainer Dart
- Irving Stone
- Irving Wallace
- Irwin Shaw
- Isaac Asimov
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Isaac Rosenberg
- Isaak Babel
- Isabel Allende
- Isabel Colegate
- Ishmael Reed
- Italo Calvino
- Italo Svevo
- Ivan Bunin
- Ivo Andrić
- Ivor Gurney
J
- J. B. Priestley
- J. D. Salinger
- J. G. Ballard
- J. K. Rowling
- J. M. Barrie
- J. M. Coetzee
- J. M. G. Le Clézio
- J. P. Donleavy
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- J.G. Farrell
- Jacinto Benavente
- Jack Finney
- Jack Gilbert
- Jack Kerouac
- Jack London
- Jack Schaefer
- Jackie Collins
- Jacques Prévert
- Jamaica Kincaid
- James A. Michener
- James Agee
- James Baldwin
- James Clavell
- James Dickey
- James Ellroy
- James Emanuel
- James Gould Cozzens
- James Hanley
- James Hilton
- James Jones
- James Joyce
- James Lee Burke
- James Leo Herlihy
- James M. Cain
- James McBride
- James Merrill
- James Norman Hall
- James Patterson
- James Redfield
- James Schuyler
- James T. Farrell
- James Thurber
- Jan Karon
- Jane Gardam
- Jane Smiley
- Jane Urquhart
- Jaroslav Seifert
- Jay McInerney
- Jean Cocteau
- Jean Genet
- Jean Giono
- Jean Giraudoux
- Jean M. Auel
- Jean Rhys
- Jean Toomer
- Jean Venturini
- Jeanette Winterson
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Jeff Noon
- Jeffrey Archer
- Jerzy Kosinski
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Jim Crace
- Jim Harrison
- Jim Thompson
- Joan Didion
- Joanne Harris
- João Guimarães Rosa
- Jodi Picoult
- Joe Orton
- Joe R. Lansdale
- John Ashbery
- John Banville
- John Barth
- John Berger
- John Berryman
- John Braine
- John Buchan
- John Cheever
- John Collier
- John Cowper Powys
- John Crowley
- John Dos Passos
- John Dufresne
- John Dunning
- John Fante
- John Fowles
- John Galsworthy
- John Gardner
- John Grisham
- John Gunther
- John Hawkes
- John Hersey
- John Irving
- John Kennedy Toole
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- John Lanchester
- John le Carré
- John Masefield
- John Maynard Keynes
- John McGahern
- John Millington Synge
- John O'Hara
- John Osborne
- John Reed
- John Rewald
- John Richardson
- John Steinbeck
- John Toland
- John Updike
- John W. Campbell
- John Wain
- John Williams
- Jon Krakauer
- Jonathan Carroll
- Jonathan Coe
- Jonathan Franzen
- Jonathan Kellerman
- Jonathan Lethem
- Jorge Amado
- Jorge Luis Borges
- José Echegaray
- José Lezama Lima
- José Ortega y Gasset
- José Saramago
- Joseph Brodsky
- Joseph Campbell
- Joseph Conrad
- Joseph Epstein
- Joseph Heller
- Joseph O'Connor
- Joseph Roth
- Joseph Wambaugh
- Josephine Tey
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Joyce Cary
- Joyce Kilmer
- Juan Carlos Onetti
- Juan Rulfo
- Judy Blume
- Julia Alvarez
- Julia Peterkin
- Julian Barnes
- Julio Cortázar
K-L
- Kahlil Gibran
- Karen Blixen
- Karen Joy Fowler
- Karl Kraus
- Karl Shapiro
- Kate Atkinson
- Kate Grenville
- Katherine Anne Porter
- Katherine Kerr
- Katherine Kurtz
- Katherine Mansfield
- Katherine Neville
- Kathryn Harrison
- Kathy Acker
- Kay Boyle
- Kaye Gibbons
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Ken Follett
- Ken Kesey
- Kenneth Clark
- Kenneth Grahame
- Kenzaburō Ōe
- Keri Hulme
- Kingsley Amis
- Knut Hamsun
- Kōbō Abe
- Kurt Vonnegut
- L. Frank Baum
- L. Ron Hubbard
- Langston Hughes
- Larry Baker
- Larry McMurtry
- Laura Esquivel
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Laurie Colwin
- Lawrence Durrell
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Lee Child
- Len Deighton
- Leon Uris
- Leonard Cohen
- Leslie Marmon Silko
- Lewis Mumford
- Lewis Mumford
- Lillian Hellman
- Lily King
- Lincoln Steffens
- Lionel Trilling
- Lois McMaster Bujold
- Lorine Niedecker
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Lorrie Moore
- Louis Aragon
- Louis Bromfield
- Louis de Bernieres
- Louis L'Amour
- Louis Zukofsky
- Louise Erdrich
- Louise Glück
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Lu Xun
- Lu Xun
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Ludmila Ulitskaya
- Ludwig Renn
- Luigi Pirandello
- Lydia Davis
- Lytton Strachey
M
- M. P. Shiel
- Madeleine L'Engle
- Madison Smartt Bell
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Mahmoud Darwish
- Malcolm Lowry
- Malcolm X
- Mameve Medwed
- Manuel Puig
- Marcel Proust
- Margaret Atwood
- Margaret Ayer Barnes
- Margaret Landon
- Margaret Laurence
- Margaret Mead
- Margaret Mitchell
- Margaret Wilson
- Marge Piercy
- Marguerite Duras
- Marguerite Yourcenar
- Marianne Moore
- Marina Tsvetaeva
- Mario Benedetti
- Mario Puzo
- Mario Vargas Llosa
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- Mark Helprin
- Mark Salzman
- Marshall McLuhan
- Martin Amis
- Martin Buber
- Martin Flavin
- Martin Heidegger
- Mary Doria Russell
- Mary Gordon
- Mary Higgins Clark
- Mary Lee Settle
- Mary McCarthy
- Mary Renault
- Mary Stewart
- Matilde Camus
- Maurice Blanchot
- Maurice Level
- Maurice Maeterlinck
- Maurice Sendak
- Max Beerbohm
- Max Jacob
- Max Weber
- Maxim Gorky
- Maxine Hong Kingston
- Maxine Kumin
- Maya Angelou
- Melinda Haynes
- Melissa Bank
- Mercè Rodoreda
- Mervyn Peake
- Meyer Schapiro
- Michael Connelly
- Michael Crichton
- Michael Cunningham
- Michael Dorris
- Michael Frayn
- Michael Herr
- Michael Malone
- Michael Moorcock
- Michael Ondaatje
- Michael Shaara
- Michael Shaara
- Michel Butor
- Michel Foucault
- Michel Leiris
- Mickey Spillane
- Miguel Ángel Asturias
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- Milan Kundera
- Mina Loy
- Mircea Eliade
- Miriam Toews
- Mirza Adeeb
- Mongo Beti
- Monique Wittig
- Mordecai Richler
- Morgan Llywelyn
- Mrs. Riazuddin
- Muhammad Iqbal
- Muriel Spark
N-O
- N. Scott Momaday
- Nadine Gordimer
- Naguib Mahfouz
- Nancy Mitford
- Natalia Ginzburg
- Nathalie Sarraute
- Nathaniel West
- Nâzım Hikmet
- Neal Stephenson
- Neil Simon
- Nelly Sachs
- Nelson Algren
- Nelson DeMille
- Nevil Shute
- Nicholas Christopher
- Nicholas Evans
- Nicholas Pileggi
- Nicholson Baker
- Nick Bantock
- Nick Hornby
- Nikolay Gumilev
- Nikos Kazantzakis
- Noah Gordon
- Noam Chomsky
- Noël Coward
- Nora Ephron
- Nora Roberts
- Norman Mailer
- Norman Rush
- Northrop Frye
- Nuruddin Farah
- O. Henry
- Octavio Paz
- Odysseus Elytis
- Ogden Nash
- Olaf Stapledon
- Oliver La Farge
- Olivia Manning
- Orhan Pamuk
- Orrick Johns
- Orson Scott Card
- Oscar Hammerstein II
- Osip Mandelstam
- Owen Wister
- Ödön von Horváth
P-Q
- P. D. James
- P. D. Ouspensky
- P. G. Wodehouse
- P. J. O'Rourke
- P.C. Wren
- Pablo Neruda
- Padgett Powell
- Pär Lagerkvist
- Pat Conroy
- Patricia Highsmith
- Patricia McKillip
- Patrick McCabe
- Patrick O'Brian
- Patrick Suskind
- Patrick White
- Paul Auster
- Paul Bowles
- Paul Celan
- Paul Claudel
- Paul Éluard
- Paul Goodman
- Paul Heyse
- Paul Scott
- Paul Valéry
- Paula Fox
- Pauline Kael
- Pearl S. Buck
- Penelope Fitzgerald
- Penelope Lively
- Pete Dexter
- Peter Ackroyd
- Peter Benchley
- Peter Carey
- Peter Hoeg
- Peter S. Beagle
- Peter Straub
- Philip José Farmer
- Philip K. Dick
- Philip Larkin
- Philip Pullman
- Philip Roth
- Philippa Gregory
- Piers Anthony
- Pietro di Donato
- Primo Levi
- Quentin Crisp
R
- Robert Lawrence Stine (R. L. Stine)
- R. S. Thomas
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rachel Carson
- Radclyffe Hall
- Rafael Alberti
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Raja Rao
- Ralph Ellison
- Ramón del Valle-Inclán
- Randall Jarrell
- Ray Bradbury
- Raymond Carver
- Raymond Chandler
- Raymond Feist
- Raymond Queneau
- Regina M. Anderson
- René Char
- René Crevel
- Rex Stout
- Richard Adams
- Richard Aldington
- Richard Bach
- Richard Brautigan
- Richard Farina
- Richard Ford
- Richard Harding Davis
- Richard Hughes
- Richard Llewellyn
- Richard Matheson
- Richard North Patterson
- Richard Russo
- Richard Wilbur
- Richard Wright
- Richard Yates
- Ring Lardner
- Roald Dahl
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Robert Benchley
- Robert Caro
- Robert Coover
- Robert Creeley
- Robert Desnos
- Robert E. Howard
- Erskine Childers
- Robert Frost
- Robert Graves
- Robert Harris
- Robert Hayden
- Robert Holdstock
- Robert Jordan
- Robert Lowell
- Robert Ludlum
- Robert Musil
- Robert Olmstead
- Robert Penn Warren
- Robert Pinsky
- Robert Ruark
- Robert Stone
- Robert Walser
- Roberto Bolaño
- Robertson Davies
- Robin Cook
- Robin Hobb
- Robin McKinley
- Roger Angell
- Roger Ebert
- Roger Zelazny
- Rohinton Mistry
- Roland Barthes
- Romain Rolland
- Rómulo Gallegos
- Ronald Firbank
- Rosamund Pilcher
- Rosario Castellanos
- Rose Macaulay
- Rose Tremain
- Rubén Darío
- Rudolf Christoph Eucken
- Rupert Brooke
- Russell Edson
- Russell Hoban
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
S
- S. J. Perelman
- S. M. Stirling
- Saki
- Sally Beauman
- Salman Rushdie
- Sam Shepard
- Samuel Agnon
- Samuel Beckett
- Samuel R. Delany
- Sandor Marai
- Sandra Dallas
- Sandra Gulland
- Sara Douglass
- Sara Teasdale
- Sarah Caudwell
- Sarah Waters
- Sasha Sokolov
- Saul Bellow
- Seamus Heaney
- Seán O'Casey
- Selma Lagerlöf
- Sharon Kay Penman
- Sherman Alexie
- Sherwood Anderson
- Shirley Hazzard
- Shirley Jackson
- Sholem Asch
- Sholom Aleichem
- Sidney Sheldon
- Siegfried Sassoon
- Sigmund Freud
- Sigrid de Lima
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Sinclair Lewis
- Stan Lee
- Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
- Stanisław Lem
- Stanley Elkin
- Stanley Kunitz
- Stefan Zweig
- Stella Gibbons
- Stephen Dixon
- Stephen Donaldson
- Stephen E. Ambrose
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Stephen King
- Stephen Spender
- Stephen Vincent Benét
- Stewart O'Nan
- Storm Jameson
- Studs Terkel
- Susan Hill
- Susan Sontag
- Susan Straight
- Susan Vreeland
- Sylvia Plath
T-U
- T. Coraghessan Boyle
- T. E. Lawrence
- T. F. Powys
- T. H. White
- T. R. Pearson
- T. S. Eliot
- Tad Williams
- Tayeb Salih
- Ted Hughes
- Tennessee Williams
- Terence Rattigan
- Terry Brooks
- Terry Goodkind
- Terry Kay
- Terry Pratchett
- Terry Southern
- Theodore Dreiser
- Theodore H. White
- Theodore Roethke
- Theodore Sturgeon
- Thomas B. Costain
- Thomas B. Costain
- Thomas Berger
- Thomas Bernhard
- Thomas Friedman
- Thomas Keneally
- Thomas Mann
- Thomas Merton
- Thomas Pynchon
- Thomas Sigismund Stribling
- Thomas Wolfe
- Thornton Wilder
- Tim O'Brien
- Tim Powers
- Tim Rice
- Tim Winton
- Timothy Leary
- Tobias Wolff
- Tom Clancy
- Tom Robbins
- Tom Stoppard
- Tom Wolfe
- Toni Morrison
- Tracy Chevalier
- Trevanian
- Tristan Tzara
- Truman Capote
- Umberto Eco
- Upton Sinclair
- Ursula Hegi
- Ursula K. Le Guin
V-W
- V. C. Andrews
- V. S. Naipaul
- Vachel Lindsay
- Václav Havel
- Velimir Khlebnikov
- Vikram Seth
- Virginia Woolf
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Vladimir Nabokov
- W. B. Yeats
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- W. E. B. Griffin
- W. H. Auden
- W. Somerset Maugham
- W.G. Sebald
- Walker Percy
- Wallace Stegner
- Wallace Stevens
- Wally Lamb
- Walter Lippmann
- Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- Walter Mosley
- Walter Van Tilburg Clark
- Wilbur Smith
- Wilfred Owen
- Wilhelm Reich
- Will Durant
- Willa Cather
- William Boyd
- William Carlos Williams
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
- William Faulkner
- William Gaddis
- William Gibson
- William Golding
- William Goyen
- William H. Gass
- William Henry Hudson
- William Inge
- William James
- William Keepers Maxwell, Jr.
- William Kennedy
- William Kent Krueger
- William L. Shirer
- William March
- William S. Burroughs
- William Saroyan
- William Styron
- William Trevor
- Winston Churchill
- Wisława Szymborska
- Władysław Reymont
- Wole Soyinka
- Woody Allen
- Wyndham Lewis
Y-Z
- Yannis Ritsos
- Yasunari Kawabata
- Yehuda Amichai
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Yukio Mishima
- Yves Bonnefoy
- Zane Grey
- Zora Neale Hurston
