American Literature: Biographies
- Walt Whitman
- Walter Mosley
- Washington Irving
- Wilborn Hampton
- Willa Sibert Cather
- William Allen White
- William Carlos Williams
- William Cullen Bryant
- William Dean Howells
- William Dunlap
- William Ellery Channing
- William Faulkner
- William Gibson
- William Gilmore Simms
- William Howard Gass
- William Kennedy
- William Rose Benet
- William S. Burroughs
- William Saroyan
- William Styron