Authors, Poets and Writers
- William Wright (1829–1898), real name of Dan DeQuille, American author, newspaperman, and humorist
- William Wright (author) (born 1930), American author of Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals
- William Wright (missionary) (1837–1899), Irish missionary and author of The Empire of the Hittites
- William Wright (poet) (born 1782), Scottish poet
- William Aldis Wright (1831–1914), English writer and editor
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