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- Tim Waggoner
- Karl Edward Wagner, (1945–1994) author of Kane
- Mervyn Wall, (1908–1997)
- Evangeline Walton
- Jo Walton, (born 1964)
- Freda Warrington, author of Elfland, A Taste of Blood Wine, the Blackbird sequence, Dracula the Undead, Dark Cathedral, and others
- Lawrence Watt-Evans, (born 1954)
- Catherine Webb, (born 1986)
- David Weber
- Margaret Weis, (born 1948) co-author of several Dragonlance books
- Manly Wade Wellman, (1903–1986)
- Angus Wells
- Martha Wells, (born 1964)
- Suzanne Weyn, (born 1955)
- Chuck Whelon, (born 1969)
- E. B. White, (1899-1985) author of Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little
- T.H. White, (1906–1964) (Terence Hanbury White) author of The Once and Future King
- Kit Whitfield
- Jack Whyte, (born 1939)
- Cherry Wilder, (1930–2002) author of The Wanderer
- Paul O. Williams, (born 1935)
- Tad Williams, (born 1957) author of the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy
- Terri Windling, (born 1958) author of the Bordertown series
- Gene Wolfe, (born 1931)
- Patricia Wrede, author of the Lyra books
- John C. Wright, (born 1961) author of the Orphans of Chaos and Last Guardian of Everness series.
- Janny Wurts, author of the Wars of Light and Shadow and the Empire Trilogy (with Raymond E. Feist)
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