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American poets

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Vance ThompsonAuthor · BooksVance Thompson (April 17, 1863 - June 5, 1925) was an American literary critic, novelist, poet and low-carbohydrate diet writer.
Vertamae GrosvenorAuthor · BooksVertamae Smart-Grosvenor (April 4, 1937 – September 3, 2016) was an American culinary anthropologist, griot, poet, food writer, and broadcaster on public media.
Viggo MortensenPhotographer · PhotographyViggo Peter Mortensen Jr. (born October 20, 1958) is a Danish-American actor and filmmaker.
Viktor DragunskyAuthor · BooksViktor Yuzefovich Dragunsky (1 December 1913 - 6 May 1972) was a Soviet writer. He was born into a Jewish family who emigrated to the United States from Gomel, Belarus.
Violet Kazue de CristoforoAuthor · BooksViolet Kazue de Cristoforo (September 3, 1917 – October 3, 2007) was a Japanese American poet, composer and translator of haiku.
Virgil FinlayIllustrator · IllustrationVirgil Finlay (July 23, 1914 – January 18, 1971) was an American pulp fantasy, science fiction and horror illustrator. He has been called "part of the pulp magazine history..
Vito AcconciDesigner · Modern designVito Acconci (Italian: [ˈviːto akˈkontʃi]; January 24, 1940 – April 27, 2017) was an American performance, video and installation artist, whose diverse practice eventually included…
Voltairine de CleyreAuthor · BooksVoltairine de Cleyre (De Claire; November 17, 1866 – June 20, 1912) was an American anarchist feminist writer and public speaker.
Vyacheslav IvanovAuthor · BooksVyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov (vʲɪtɕɪˈslaf ˈfsʲevələdəvʲɪtɕ ɪˈvanəf; 21 August 1929 – 7 October 2017) was a prominent Soviet and Russian philologist, semiotician and Indo-Europeanist…
W. D. SnodgrassAuthor · BooksWilliam De Witt Snodgrass (January 5, 1926 – January 13, 2009) was an American poet who also wrote under the pseudonym S. S. Gardons. He won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
W. S. MerwinAuthor · BooksWilliam Stanley Merwin (September 30, 1927 – March 15, 2019) was an American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose and produced many works in translation.
Wallace StevensAuthor · BooksWallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet.
Walt WhitmanAuthor · BooksWalter Whitman Jr. (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels.
Walter KaufmannAuthor · BooksWalter Arnold Kaufmann (July 1, 1921 – September 4, 1980) was a German-American philosopher, translator, and poet.
Walter Van Tilburg ClarkAuthor · BooksWalter Van Tilburg Clark (August 3, 1909 – November 10, 1971) was an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and educator.
Warren AdlerAuthor · BooksWarren Adler (December 16, 1927 – April 15, 2019) was an American author, playwright and poet.
Washington GladdenAuthor · BooksWashington Gladden (February 11, 1836 – July 2, 1918) was a leading American Congregational pastor and early leader in the Social Gospel movement.
Wendell BerryAuthor · BooksWendell Erdman Berry (August 5, 1934 – August 31, 2026) was an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic and farmer.
Will SchuttAuthor · BooksWill Schutt (born 1981, New York City) is an American author. He wrote Westerly (Yale University Press, 2013), selected by Carl Phillips as the winner of the 2012 Yale Series of Younger…
William Carlos WilliamsAuthor · BooksWilliam Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism.
William Cullen BryantAuthor · BooksWilliam Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 – June 12, 1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New-York Evening Post.
William GibsonAuthor · BooksIllustration — Gibson in 1964
William GoyenAuthor · BooksCharles William Goyen (April 24, 1915 – August 30, 1983) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, editor, and teacher.
William Irwin ThompsonAuthor · BooksWilliam Irwin Thompson (July 16, 1938 – November 8, 2020) was an American social philosopher, cultural critic, and poet. He received the Oslo International Poetry Festival Award in 1986.
William SaroyanAuthor · BooksWilliam Saroyan (August 31, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an American novelist, playwright, and short story writer of Armenian descent.
William Thomas WalshAuthor · BooksWilliam Thomas Walsh (September 11, 1891 – January 22, 1949) was an American Catholic historian, author, educator, and violinist.
William Wetmore StoryAuthor · BooksWilliam Story (disambiguation)
Wilma MankillerAuthor · BooksWilma Pearl Mankiller (Atsilasgi Asgayadihi; November 18, 1945April 6, 2010) was a Native American activist, social worker, community developer and the first woman elected to serve as…
Win ButlerAuthor · BooksEdwin Farnham Butler III (born April 14, 1980) is an American-Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, and multi-instrumentalist.
Winnie HolzmanAuthor · BooksWinnie Holzman is an American playwright, screenwriter, actress, and producer. She is best known for writing the script of the Tony Award winning Broadway musical Wicked, and for co-writing…
Winston ChurchillAuthor · BooksThe Celebrity is dated 1897.
Yaltah MenuhinAuthor · BooksYaltah Menuhin (7 October 1921 – 9 June 2001) was an American-born British pianist, artist and poet.
Zack de la RochaAuthor · BooksZacharias Manuel de la Rocha (born January 12, 1970) is an American musician, rapper, singer, songwriter, and political activist.
Zalman ShneurAuthor · BooksZalman Shneour (born Shneur Zalkind; 1887 – 20 February 1959) was a prolific Yiddish and Hebrew poet and writer. In 1955, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Zelda FitzgeraldArtist · PaintingsZelda Fitzgerald (Sayre; July 24, 1900 – March 10, 1948) was an American novelist, painter, writer, and socialite.
Zenobia CamprubíAuthor · BooksZenobia Camprubí Aymar (31 August 1887 – 25 October 1956) was a Spanish-born writer and poet; she was also a noted translator of the works of Rabindranath Tagore.
Zitkala-SaAuthor · BooksZitkala-Ša, also Zitkála-Šá (Lakota: Zitkála-Šá, meaning Red Bird; February 22, 1876 – January 26, 1938), was a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political…
Zoketsu Norman FischerAuthor · BooksZoketsu Norman Fischer is an American poet, writer, and Soto Zen priest, teaching and practicing in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki.
Zvi YairAuthor · BooksZvi Yair is the pen-name of the Jewish poet and Chassidic scholar Rabbi Zvi Meir Steinmetz (20 March 1915 – 16 September 2005). Yair wrote poetry in Hebrew.

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