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 | W. Chan Kim The Boston Consulting Group Bruce D. Henderson Chair Professor of Strategy and International Management at INSEAD, France (the world's second largest business school). |
 | W. Somerset Maugham (January 25, 1874 - December 16, 1965) William Somerset Maugham was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer. He was one of the most popular authors of his era, and reputedly the highest paid of his profession during the 1930s. |
no image | Walter Farley (June 26, 1915 - October 16, 1989) |
 | Walter Lippmann (September 23, 1889 - December 14, 1974) Walter Lippmann (September 23, 1889 - December 14, 1974) was an influential American writer, journalist, and political commentator. |
 | Walter Wick |
 | Warren Buffett Warren Edward Buffett (born: August 30, 1930, Omaha, Nebraska) is an American investor, businessperson and philanthropist. |
 | Warren G. Bennis Warren Gameliel Bennis (born March 8, 1925) is an American scholar, organizational consultant and author who is widely regarded as a pioneer of the contemporary field of leadership studies.Bennis is University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration and Founding Chairman of The Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California. |
 | Wilkie Collins (January 8, 1824 - September 23, 1889) He was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. He was hugely popular in his time, and wrote 27 novels, more than 50 short stories, at least 15 plays, and over 100 pieces of non-fiction work. His best-known works are The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Armadale and No Name. |
 | Willa Cather (December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947) Wilella Sibert Cather is an eminent author from the United States. She is known for her depictions of U.S. life in novels such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop. |
 | William Attaway (November 19, 1911 - 1986) William Attaway was an African American novelist, short story writer, essayist, songwriter, playwright, and screenwriter. He was born on November 19, 1911, in Greenville, Mississippi. His parents were William S. Attaway, a physician and Florence Parry Attaway, a teacher. At the age of six, the Attaways moved to Chicago, Illinois to escape the segregated South. |
 | William Beckford (October 1, 1970 - May 2, 1844) |
 | William D. Cohan William D. Cohan is a former award-winning investigative newspaper reporter in Raleigh, North Carolina, who worked on Wall Street for seventeen years. He spent six years at Lazard Frères in New York and later became a managing director at JP Morgan Chase. He lives in New York City and Columbia County, New York. |
 | William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 - May 11, 1920) William Dean Howells was an American realist author and literary critic. |
 | William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 - August 27, 1963) William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (pronounced /duːˈbɔɪz/)was a black civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. He became a naturalized citizen of Ghana in 1963 at the age of 95. |
 | William Faulkner (September 25, 1897 - July 6, 1962) William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American novelist and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippi. He is regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century and was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature. |
no image | William G. Flanagan William G. Flanagan has been a writer and editor at Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Esquire, and New York magazine. |
 | William G. Tapply He was born in Waltham, Massachusetts.;An English Professor of Clark University. |
 | William Gaddis (December 29, 1922 - December 16, 1998) He was an American novelist. He wrote five novels, two of which won National Book Awards. |
 | William Gibson William Ford Gibson (born March 3, 1948) is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the noir prophet of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. In 1982, Gibson coined the term cyberspace and popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). Gibson is best known for depicting a visualised, worldwide communications network before it became established in the 1990s, and he is credited with anticipating and establishing the conceptual foundations of the Internet. |
 | William Golding (September 19, 1911 - June 19, 1993) A British novelist, poet and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1983), best known for his novel Lord of the Flies. He was also awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980, for his novel Rites of Passage, the first book of the trilogy To the Ends of the Earth. |
 | William Goldman William Goldman is an American novelist, playwright and screenwriter. He also uses the pen names Harry Longbaugh and Simon Morgenstern. He has two Academy Awards under his belt: 1) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1970; and 2) All for President’s Men in 1977. |
 | William J. Bernstein William J. Bernstein is an American financial theorist, known for pioneering research in the field of Modern Portfolio Theory. Bernstein is also highly regarded for his self-help finance books for individual investors who wish to manage their own equity portfolios |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray (July 18, 1811 - December 24, 1863) William Makepeace Thackeray (IPA: /ˈθækərɪ/; July 18, 1811 – December 24, 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society. |
 | William S Burroughs (February 5, 1914 - August 2, 1997) William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914(1914-02-05) - August 2, 1997), more commonly known as William S. Burroughs , was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. |
 | William Shakespeare (1564 - April 23, 1616) He was an English poet and playwright widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language, and as the world's preeminent dramatist. He wrote approximately 38 plays and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems. Already popular in his own lifetime, Shakespeare became more famous after his death and his work was adulated by many prominent cultural figures through the centuries. He is often considered to be England's national poet and is sometimes referred to as the Bard of Avon (or simply The Bard) or the Swan of Avon. |
no image | William T. O'Hara |
 | William Wells Brown (November 6, 1814 - November 6, 1884) He was a prominent abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. Born into slavery in the Southern United States, Brown escaped to the North, where he worked for abolitionist causes and was a prolific writer. Brown was a pioneer in several different literary genres, including travel writing, fiction, and drama, and wrote what is considered to be the first novel by an African American. |
no image | Wolfram Von Eschenbach Wolfram von Eschenbach (life data are speculative: * to 1160/80; † to / from 1220) was a German poet. The Middle literature owes him more epic works. Just as he minstrel lyrical poems. |
