List of Novelists From The United States - W

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• David Wagoner (born 1926), The Escape Artist
• Alice Walker (born 1944), The Color Purple
• Margaret Walker (1915–1998), Jubilee
• David Foster Wallace (1962–2008), Infinite Jest
• Irving Wallace (1916–1990), The Fan Club
• Lew Wallace (1827–1905), Ben-Hur
• Edward Lewis Wallant (1926–1962), The Tenants of Moonbloom
• Robert James Waller (born 1939), The Bridges of Madison County
• Douglass Wallop (1920–1985), The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant
• Joseph Wambaugh (born 1937), The Choirboys
• Walter Wangerin, Jr. (born 1944), The Book of the Dun Cow
• Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (1844–1911), The Gates Ajar
• William Ware (1797–1852), Zenobia; or, The Fall of Palmyra
• Catherine Anne Warfield (1816–1877), The Household of Bouverie
• Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900), The Gilded Age (with Mark Twain)
• Gertrude Chandler Warner (1890–1979), The Boxcar Children
• Susan Warner (1819–1895), The Wide, Wide World
• Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989), All the King's Men
• Larry Watson (born 1947), Montana 1948
• Hillary Waugh (born 1920), Last Seen Wearing...
• Will Weaver (born 1950), Red Earth, White Earth
• Charles Webb (born 1939), The Graduate
• Katharine Weber (born 1955), Triangle
• Jean Webster (1876–1916), Daddy-Long-Legs
• Jerome Weidman (1913–1998), I Can Get It for You Wholesale
• James Welch (1940–2003), Fools Crow
• Manly Wade Wellman (1903–1986), The Old Gods Waken
• Rebecca Wells (born 1952), Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
• Eudora Welty (1909–2001), The Optimist's Daughter
• Glenway Wescott (1901–1987), The Grandmothers
• Dorothy West (1907–1998), The Living Is Easy
• Jessamyn West (1902–1984), The Massacre at Fall Creek
• Nathanael West (1903–1940), The Day of the Locust
• Paul West (born 1930), The Women of Whitechapel and Jack the Ripper
• Donald E. Westlake (born 1933), God Save the Mark
• Edith Wharton (1862–1937), The Age of Innocence
• William Wharton (1925–2008), Birdy
• E. B. White (1899–1985), Charlotte's Web
• Edmund White (born 1940), A Boy's Own Story
• Randy Wayne White (born 1950), Sanibel Flats
• Stewart Edward White (1873–1946), The Claim Jumpers
• Colson Whitehead (born 1969), The Intuitionist
• Brand Whitlock (1869–1934), The Turn of the Balance
• Phyllis A. Whitney (born 1903), The Mystery of the Haunted Pool
• Edward Whittemore (1933–1995), Sinai Tapestry
• John Edgar Wideman (born 1941), Philadelphia Fire
• Elie Wiesel (born 1928), Twilight
• Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856–1923), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
• Marianne Wiggins (born 1947), Evidence of Things Unseen
• James Wilcox (born 1949), Modern Baptists
• Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957), Little House on the Prairie
• Thornton Wilder (1897–1975), The Bridge of San Luis Rey
• Kate Wilhelm (born 1928), Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
• Christopher Willard (born 1960), Garbage Head
• Charles Willeford (1919–1988), Miami Blues
• Ben Ames Williams (1889–1953), House Divided
• John Williams (1922–1994), Stoner
• John A. Williams (born 1925), The Man Who Cried I Am
• Joy Williams (born 1944), State of Grace
• Philip Lee Williams (born 1950), "Elegies for the Water"
• Tennessee Williams (1911–1983), The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
• Thomas Williams (1926–1990), The Hair of Harold Roux
• Jack Williamson (born 1908), The Humanoid Touch
• Calder Willingham (1922–1995), End As a Man
• Connie Willis (born 1945), Doomsday Book
• Harriet E. Wilson (1825–1900), Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
• Harry Leon Wilson (1867–1919), Ruggles of Red Gap
• Margaret Wilson (1882–1973), The Able McLaughlins
• Robert Anton Wilson (born 1932), The Illuminatus! Trilogy (with Robert Shea)
• Sloan Wilson (1920–2003), The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
• Mark Winegardner (born 1961), Crooked River Burning
• Theodore Winthrop (1828–1861), John Brent
• Owen Wister (1860–1938), The Virginian
• Larry Woiwode (born 1941), Beyond the Bedroom Wall
• Gene Wolfe (born 1931), The Book of the New Sun
• Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938), Look Homeward, Angel
• Tom Wolfe (born 1931), The Bonfire of the Vanities
• Geoffrey Wolff (born 1937), Providence
• Tobias Wolff (born 1945), The Barracks Thief
• Hilma Wolitzer (born 1930), Silver
• Meg Wolitzer (born 1959), This Is Your Life
• Daniel Woodrell (born 1953), Give Us a Kiss
• Samuel Woodworth (1784–1842), The Champions of Freedom
• Cornell Woolrich (1903–1968), The Bride Wore Black
• Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894), For the Major
• Herman Wouk (born 1915), The Caine Mutiny
• Austin Tappan Wright (1883–1931), Islandia
• Mary Tappan Wright (1851–1917), Aliens
• Ernest Vincent Wright (c. 1873–1939), Gadsby
• Harold Bell Wright (1872–1944), The Shepherd of the Hills
• Kirby Wright (born 1955), Punahou Blues
• Richard Wright (1908–1960), Native Son
• Stephen Wright (born 1946), The Amalgamation Polka