Authors whose first name starts with W

W. Bruce Cameron

42 books• 8 series

Dogs and the people attached to them are the subject of W. Bruce Cameron's fiction. A Dog's Purpose (2010) opens that strand, followed by A Dog's Journey, A Dog's Way Home and the Puppy Tales retellings including Bailey's Story, with the Lily to the Rescue! books written for younger readers. Cameron also wrote the humour title 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter (2001). Forty-five books reach Piper's Story in 2025.

W. Michael Gear, born in 1955, is an American writer and archaeologist whose novels have appeared in 29 languages. Gear co-wrote the North America's Forgotten Past series with his wife Kathleen O'Neal Gear, and writes science fiction and westerns besides, through Donovan, the Spider Trilogy, Forbidden Borders, the Athena Trilogy, Wyoming Chronicles, Flight of the Hawk and Team Psi. Thirty-four catalogued titles run from 1988, the year of Long Ride Home and Big Horn Legacy, to Bad Choices (2024), taking in frontier life, the American West, revenge and extrasolar planets.

W. Winters is the name on 2 catalogued books. Only For Him (2023) is the first. Get on Your Knees (2024) follows, credited to Willow Winters and written with M Robinson. The listing runs from 2023 to 2024 and is marked ongoing.

W.E.B. Griffin was the best-known pen name of William Edmund Butterworth III (November 10, 1929 to February 12, 2019), an American author of military and detective fiction. Under the Griffin name Butterworth published 59 novels across seven series, 21 of them written with Butterworth's son, William E. Butterworth IV. The catalogue files 194 titles here, including 1960s books issued as W.E. Butterworth, Webb Beech and Walker E. Blake. Series include Brotherhood of War, Presidential Agent and M*A*S*H, and World War II and the U.S. Marine Corps recur in the subjects.

Wahida Clark writes urban fiction about African American women, the men in their lives and the criminal economies around both. Thugs and the Women Who Love Them (2002) opens the Thug series, followed by Every Thug Needs a Lady, Thug Matrimony and Thug Lovin'. The Payback books, Golden Hustla and Urban Isis follow. Thirty titles make up the catalogue, which ends at Covid, Mayhem and Murder in 2023.

Walker Percy

14 books• 3 series

Walker Percy (May 28, 1916 to May 10, 1990) was an American novelist and a Southern Catholic literary figure. Alienation, existentialism, faith and the limits of science run through the Percy novels, several of them set in New Orleans. The Moviegoer (1961), the first, won the National Book Award for Fiction. Will Barrett and Dr. Tom More are the two series, and The Last Gentleman, Love in the Ruins, Lancelot and The Second Coming are among the novels. Percy earned an M.D. from Columbia University in 1941 after studying chemistry at Chapel Hill.

Wallace Stegner (Wallace Earle Stegner, February 18, 1909 to April 13, 1993) was an American novelist, historian and environmentalist, often called "The Dean of Western Writers". Stegner received the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977. The catalogue records 41 books from Remembering Laughter (1937) to The Twilight of Self Reliance (2008). Mormon Country (1942), The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943) and Beyond the Hundredth Meridian (1954) are listed titles. Subjects include the American West, Mormons, history and biography.

Wally Lamb

8 books

Family life, psychological trauma and coming of age carry through Wally Lamb's eight novels. The run opens with She's Come Undone (1992) and reaches The River Is Waiting (2025), taking in I Know This Much Is True (1998) and The Hour I First Believed (2007). The Columbine High School massacre, post-traumatic stress and secrecy appear in the subject tags. Lamb is still publishing.

Walter Farley

28 books• 2 series

Horses carry Walter Farley's work. The American author's first book, The Black Stallion (1941), introduced the stallion called the Black and the character Alec Ramsay, and sequels followed for decades. The catalogue records 28 books to 1989, the year of Farley's death, among them The Island Stallion (1948), The Black Stallion Revolts (1953) and the Little Black Pony series. Farley's son Steven has continued the series since. Horse racing, harness racing and training recur as subjects.

Walter Isaacson

18 books• 1 series

Walter Isaacson is an American journalist and biographer, born on 20 May 1952, whose subjects have included Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Jennifer Doudna and Elon Musk. Isaacson has edited Time, chaired CNN and led the Aspen Institute, and was a professor at Tulane University as of 2024. Eighteen books are catalogued, from The Wise Men (1986) to The Greatest Sentence Ever Written (2025).

Walter Jon Williams

58 books• 10 series

Walter Jon Williams, born October 28, 1953, is an American writer mostly of science fiction. The early books were nautical adventure: Privateers and Gentlemen, historical novels of the Age of Sail issued under the name Jon Williams from 1981 to 1984. Later series include Hardwired, Maijstral, Metropolitan, Dagmar, Dread Empire's Fall and Quillifer. The catalogue lists 58 books, the newest being Imperium Restored (2022).

Walter Mosley

71 books• 6 series

Easy Rawlins, a Black private investigator in Los Angeles, is the figure Walter Mosley returns to most. Devil in a Blue Dress (1990) opens the catalogue, which holds 71 books and reaches Ghalen (2026). Leonid McGill heads a second detective sequence, and Fearless Jones, Socrates Fortlow, King Oliver and the Crosstown to Oblivion science fiction books make up further lines. Los Angeles and New York are the recurring settings.

Wanda E. Brunstetter writes Amish romance and has sold more than 10 million books, with titles on the New York Times Best Seller list; Brunstetter is based in Washington. The catalogue lists 125 books from A Merry Heart (1997) to A Castle of Sand (2026). Series include Brides Of Lancaster County, Brides Of Webster County, Brides Of Lehigh Canal, Daughters Of Lancaster County, Sisters Of Holmes County, Half-Stitched Amish Quilting Club, Amish Millionaire, Creektown Discoveries and Rachel Yoder: Always Trouble Somewhere. Subjects include Amish women and children, Pennsylvania and Amish cooking.

Wanda M. Morris has 5 books in the catalogue, beginning with All Her Little Secrets (2021). Anywhere You Run followed in 2022, What You Leave Behind in 2024 and Small Things in 2025. The next title, This Never Happens Here, is scheduled for 2027, so Wanda M. Morris is still publishing.

Ward Palmer Larsen, born March 14, 1961, is an American novelist known for the Assassin series of thrillers. The catalogue lists 20 Larsen books, beginning with The Perfect Assassin (2004). Other titles include Fly by Wire (2010), Assassin's Game (2014) and Passenger 19 (2016). Larsen's other series are Jammer Davis and David Slaton and Tru Miller. Subjects include espionage, conspiracies and aircraft accidents. Rules of Engagement (2026) is the newest title, and Fire Fall is due in 2027.

Washington Irving

28 books• 1 series

Washington Irving was an American writer, essayist, biographer, historian and diplomat of the early nineteenth century. Rip Van Winkle (1819) and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) are the two stories he is remembered for, both collected in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle (1802), Salmagundi (1808) and A History of New York (1809) came before them. Irving also wrote biographies of Oliver Goldsmith, of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and of George Washington, along with histories of fifteenth-century Spain taking in the Alhambra palace, Columbus and the Reconquista. Twenty-seven titles are catalogued, reprints included, the most recent dated 2022.

Caribbean adventure and thriller fiction makes up Wayne Stinnett's catalogue. Jesse McDermitt heads one line and Charity Styles another, with the Tropical Adventure and Caribbean Mystery series alongside. Fifty-six catalogued books start in 2013 with Fallen Out, Fallen Palm and Fallen Hunter, and reach Sleighed (2026). The median book runs 300 pages.

Wendell Berry (August 5, 1934 - August 31, 2026) was an American novelist, poet, essayist, farmer, environmental activist and cultural critic closely tied to rural Kentucky. Berry set out agrarian themes in The Unsettling of America (1977) and The Gift of Good Land (1981). The Port William novels and stories, including A Place on Earth, Jayber Crow and That Distant Land, examine rural community life. Berry received the National Humanities Medal, delivered the 2012 Jefferson Lecture and belonged to the Fellowship of Southern Writers. The catalogue lists 104 books from Nathan Coulter (1960) to Marce Catlett (2025).

Wendy Corsi Staub's catalogue lists 87 books between 1993 and 2026, beginning with Summer Lightning and ending with Toil and Trouble. Lily Dale Mystery, Mundy's Landing, Nightwatcher, Live To Tell, Foundlings, Psychic Killer and Campus Life 101 are among the series, and one series appears under the name Wendy Morgan. Thrillers, serial murders, psychics and New York share the subjects with children's fiction, women college students and chick lit. Witch Hunt (1995) and Help Me! (1995) are among the early titles.

Detective Madison Harper and Dean Matheson are the two series recorded under Wendy Dranfield's name. Her catalogue holds 17 books published between 2015 and 2026, from The Girl Who Died (2015) to Their Last Cry (2026), taking in Cry for Help (2021), Little Girl Taken (2021) and Catch Her Death (2022). Dranfield adds a title or two a year and is still publishing.

Wendy Holden writes comic contemporary novels about young women, money and celebrity, most of them set in London and the English countryside. Simply Divine (1999) opens the catalogue, and Bad Heir Day (2000), Farm Fatale (2001), Gossip Hound (2002), Filthy Rich (2008) and Beautiful People (2009) follow. The Laura Lake books turn on a journalist, and the Royal Outsiders novels close the run at The Princess (2023). Twenty-four titles are catalogued.

Wendy Mass, born 22 April 1967, is an American author of children's books and young adult novels. A Mango-Shaped Space (2003) received the ALA Schneider Family Book Award for Middle School in 2004, and Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life was adapted into a feature film in 2011. 11 Birthdays and Every Soul a Star are other noted titles. The catalogue holds 46 books from 1997 to 2023, beginning with Teen Drug Abuse (1997) and ending with Lo and Behold (2023). Willow Falls, Candymakers, Space Taxi and Time Jumpers are among the series.

Wendy Meadows writes mysteries in quantity: 154 catalogued books between Blackvine Manor (2016) and Decaf Deceit (2026), at a median length of 150 pages. Bakeries and sweet shops name many of the series, Sweet Peach Bakery, Twin Berry Bakery, Sweet Shop, Chocolate Cozy Mysteries, while Sweetfern Harbor, Rosemary Harbor, Maple Hills and Snow Falls Alaska Cozy name the towns. Murder and confectionery meet in the titles, from Raspberry Truffle Murder to Sea Salt Caramel Murder.

Wendy Vella writes romance in two registers: Regency historicals and contemporary small-town novels. The Langley Sisters, Sinclair and Raven, the Deville Brothers, Notorious Nightingales, Lords of Night Street and Regency Rakes belong to the first; Lake Howling and Ryker Falls to the second. Seventy-eight catalogued books start at Christmas Wishes and The Reluctant Countess in 2013 and reach A Hint Of Danger (2026).

Wendy Walker writes psychological suspense, and the catalogue holds 14 books from 2006 to 2026. Knots (2006) is the earliest, followed by Four Wives (2008), Social Lives (2009) and Thanks Mom (2010). All Is Not Forgotten (2016) and Emma in the Night (2017) come next, then The Night Before (2019), Don't Look for Me (2020), Hold Your Breath (2020) and American Girl (2022). Marriage, wives, friendship, suburban life, wealth and Connecticut appear in the subject tags.

Witches fill Wendy Wang's fiction. 21 books are catalogued between Love Lacey (2015) and Haunted Paradise (2023), grouped into the Witches of Palmetto Point, Serenity Island Witches, Midlife Spirit Guides and Book of Kaels series. Hauntings and spirits carry most of the plots, in titles such as Haunting Charlie (2017), The Witches Ladder (2018) and Natural Born Witch (2019). No new Wang title has been catalogued since 2023.

Female friendship holds Wendy Wax's women's fiction together, often with a house restoration or a reality television programme in the plot. Key to My Heart (1999) opens the catalogue and 7 Days and 7 Nights (2003) follows. Ten Beach Road is the named series. Twenty-seven titles are catalogued, reaching Just Beachy in 2025.

Wendy Webb writes gothic suspense built on family secrets. Born in 1962, Webb won the Minnesota Book Award for fiction in 2011 and again in 2017. Her nine catalogued books run from The Tale of Halcyon Crane (2010) to The Witches of Santo Stefano (2024). Widows, single mothers, divorced women, artists and homecomings recur across the subjects Webb returns to, alongside horror and thriller elements.

Wes Markin writes police thrillers across four series: DCI Yorke, the Yorkshire Murders, Whitby's Forgotten Victims and Jake Pettman. One Last Prayer (2019) sits among the earliest of 30 catalogued books, which arrive two or three months apart and reach Forgotten Christmas in 2026.

Weston Parker has 188 books in the catalogue, published between 2015 and 2026. Blood Money, Dirty Money and Hard Money all date from 2015, followed by Cash Money (2016), Captain Hotness (2017), Mister Big Stuff (2017) and Air Force Hero (2018). Series include Lost Breed MC, Devil's Luck MC, Kings of Philly, Castaletta Syndicate, Bad Money, Bad Boy Bachelors, Billionaire Legacy, Faux Love, Searing Saviors and Military Man Romance. Yours to Keep (2026) is the newest.

Whitley Strieber

49 books• 4 series

Whitley Strieber, born Louis Whitley Strieber on June 13, 1945, is an American writer best known for the horror novels The Wolfen (1978) and The Hunger (1980) and for Communion, a non-fiction account of Strieber's reported encounters with non-human entities. Alongside fiction, Strieber promotes metaphysical ideas through bestselling non-fiction, the Unknown Country website and the Dreamland podcast. The catalogue holds 49 books, including Black Magic (1982), The Night Church (1983), Warday (1984), Cat Magic (1986) and Nature's End (1986), and runs to Transformation 2026. Communion, Hunger and Alien Hunter are the series, and UFOs, alien abduction and vampires appear in the subjects.

Whitney G. writes contemporary erotic romance. 52 books are catalogued between 2009 and 2026, spread across the Steamy Coffee Collection, Reasonable Doubt, Empire of Lies, Wasted Love, Forbidden Wishes, One Week, Jilted Bride, Single at Thirty and the Verdict Trilogy. Reasonable Doubt appeared as three parts in 2014, and several titles carry alternate names, among them Mid Life Love, also published as Resisting the Boss (2013). Cordially Not Invited (2026) is the most recent entry.

Who HQ is the credit on 429 children's nonfiction biographies in the catalogue, published from 2002 to 2026. The run opens with Who Was Albert Einstein?, Who Was Amelia Earhart? and Who Was Ben Franklin? (all 2002) and reaches Who Is Vera Wang (2026). Subjects include biography, history and juvenile nonfiction for readers aged 8 to 12. Other names credited on some of the books include Megan Stine (7), John Hinderliter (7) and Nico Medina (4).

Whoopi Goldberg

15 books• 2 series

Whoopi Goldberg, born Caryn Elaine Johnson in 1955, is an American actor, comedian and television personality who also writes books. Fifteen titles are catalogued, from Alice (1992) to Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me (2024), among them Whoopi's Big Book of Manners (2006) and the Sugar Plum Ballerinas series for children, which runs through Plum Fantastic (2008), Toeshoe Trouble (2009), Perfectly Prima (2010) and Dancing Diva (2012). Goldberg is one of 28 entertainers to hold the EGOT, an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony, and has also taken a BAFTA, two Golden Globes, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2010 and the Disney Legend Award in 2017.

Wilbur Smith was a British-South African novelist born in Northern Rhodesia. Smith's historical fiction covers four centuries of international involvement in Southern Africa. The catalogue lists 66 books, from When the Lion Feeds (1964) to Flashpoint (2026). Series include Courtney, Jack Courtney, Ancient Egypt, Hector Cross and Prey Zone. Recurring character listings include the Courtney family, Ballantyne and Hector Cross. David Churchill and Tom Harper each share the credit on 1 book. Subjects include Africa, Egypt, revenge, espionage and terrorism.

Wiley Cash is catalogued with four novels of suspense and family drama set in North Carolina. A Land More Kind Than Home (2012) opens the run, followed by This Dark Road to Mercy (2014), The Last Ballad (2017) and When Ghosts Come Home (2021). Brothers, sisters, fathers and daughters, textile workers and working mothers carry the subject tags. No further title is listed, and the catalogue is dormant.

Wilkie Collins

88 books

Wilkie Collins, born William Wilkie Collins on 8 January 1824 and died on 23 September 1889, was an English novelist and playwright. The Woman in White (1860) is an early sensation novel; The Moonstone (1868) set out much of what the modern detective novel came to do, and stands as an early example of the police procedural. Collins was the son of the London painter William Collins and Harriet Geddes, spent two years in Italy and France from the age of twelve, learned Italian and French there, and worked at first as a tea merchant. The catalogue holds 88 titles, from Iolani; Or, Tahiti as It Was (1840) onward, with the 1850s the heaviest decade.

Archaeology drives Will Adams's thrillers. The Daniel Knox novels put an archaeologist into Egypt and Greece across The Alexander Cipher (2007), The Exodus Quest (2008), The Lost Labyrinth (2009) and The Eden Legacy (2010); the Rossi & Nero and Warne & Elias series follow. Kidnapping, missing persons and underwater exploration recur. Thirteen catalogued titles reach Epiphany (2026).

Will Dean is a British-born crime writer living in Sweden. The Tuva Moodyson Mystery series is Dean's best known work, built on a deaf journalist of that name and set in Sweden: Dark Pines (2018), Red Snow (2019), Black River (2020), Bad Apples (2021), Wolf Pack (2022) and Ice Town (2024). Kidnapping, captivity and escape number among the subjects of the other books, The Last Thing to Burn (2021), First Born (2022) and The Chamber (2024) among them. Eleven Dean titles are catalogued, reaching Adrift (2026).

Ryan Drake carries Will Jordan's thrillers across most of a 12-book catalogue, from Redemption (2012) through Sacrifice, Betrayal, Black List and Ghost Target. Single-word titles are the pattern throughout. Jordan published Dark Harvest in 2022 and has added nothing since, leaving the catalogue dormant.

Will Thomas, born 1958 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is an American novelist behind the Barker & Llewelyn Victorian mysteries. Cyrus Barker is a Scottish private enquiry agent, and Thomas Llewelyn is Barker's Welsh assistant. The novels are set in the 1880s, draw on historical events and people, and feature martial combat throughout. The catalogue counts 20 books from Some Danger Involved (2004) to For Services Rendered (2026), including The Limehouse Text (2006) and Hell Bay (2016). Barker is modelled on figures such as Richard Francis Burton and Edward William Barton-Wright. Before the novels, Thomas wrote essays for Sherlock Holmes societies and lectured on Victorian crime fiction.

Will Wight, born August 11, 1989, as William Lawrence Wight III, is an American fantasy author. Cradle, which Wight published independently, has topped the Amazon Kindle Store bestseller list more than once and reached the New York Times Best Seller list. Wight also wrote the Traveler's Gate trilogy and the Elder Empire books, split into Sea and Shadow sequences. The catalogue lists 30 titles from 2013, including House of Blades, to Threshold: Stories from Cradle (2025), and Overworld is set for 2027.

Willa Cather

59 books• 1 series

Willa Cather wrote about the Nebraska plains, frontier and farm life, and the immigrants who settled them. Her earliest catalogued titles are short stories from 1896, and the Great Plains Trilogy is the sequence her fiction is grouped around. Sixty-nine catalogued titles, poetry and collected editions included, run through reissues dated to 2022.

The lawyer Ben Kincaid is the recurring character in William Bernhardt's legal mysteries. Primary Justice (1991) is the earliest of 77 catalogued titles, followed by Blind Justice (1992), Deadly Justice (1993) and Perfect Justice (1994), and the listing reaches The Superman Wars (2026). Daniel Pike, Splitsville, Susan Pulaski and the Red Sneaker Writers books are further series. Tulsa, Oklahoma, murder trials and serial murder fill the subject tags.

William Boyd

33 books• 2 series

Born on 7 March 1952, William Boyd is a Scottish writer who works as a novelist, short story author, screenwriter and film director. The catalogue holds 33 books from A Good Man in Africa (1981) to Cold Sunset (2026), with An Ice-Cream War (1982), Brazzaville Beach (1990), Any Human Heart (2002) and Restless (2006) among them. Boyd scripted the film Chaplin (1992) and directed The Trench (1999), a drama of the First World War. Prizes include the Whitbread First Novel Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Costa Book Award. Gabriel Dax is a Boyd series, and subjects include Africa, artists and both world wars.

Brooklyn crime is William Boyle's subject. Gravesend (2013) opened a run of novels about ex-convicts, witnesses, vigilantes and the people around them in New York, continued in The Lonely Witness (2018), A Friend is a Gift You Give Yourself (2019), City of Margins (2020) and Shoot the Moonlight Out (2021). Eight books are catalogued, with Saint of the Narrows Street published in 2025 and Heavy Sugar scheduled for 2027.

William C. Dietz

66 books• 18 series

William Corey Dietz, January 30, 1945 to March 15, 2026, was an American science fiction writer working principally in military science fiction and video game novelizations. Sixty-six titles are catalogued, from Galactic Bounty / War World (1986) to Red Dawn (2025). Series include Sam McCade, Drifter, Winds of War, Mutant Files, America Rising and Star Wars: Dark Forces, and Legion of the Damned stands as the recurring character entry. Subjects name space opera, space warfare, human-alien encounters and imaginary wars. David Drake shares credit on one title.

William Deverell

22 books• 1 series

Arthur Beauchamp, a lawyer, carries William Deverell's legal mysteries. Deverell, born in 1937, is a Canadian criminal lawyer and civil liberties activist, and the debut novel Needles (1979) drew on that legal work and won the Seal First Novel Award. Trial of Passion took the Hammett Prize and the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel in 1998, and April Fool won the Arthur Ellis again in 2003. Twenty-two catalogued books reach The Long-Shot Trial in 2024, with British Columbia and murder trials as recurring ground.

William Diehl (1924-2006) was an American novelist and photojournalist who wrote thrillers about murder, espionage, assassins and criminal investigation. Martin Vail is his recurring character, running through Primal Fear (1992), Show of Evil (1995) and Reign in Hell (1997). Sharky's Machine (1974) opens the catalogue and Seven Ways to Die (2012) closes it, 10 books in all, at a median of 467 pages. Chicago and Georgia figure among the settings, and the 1990s were Diehl's heaviest decade.

William Dietrich writes historical adventure novels and natural-history non-fiction. The Ethan Gage series, set during the Napoleonic Wars, has been translated into 28 languages and includes Napoleon's Pyramids (2007) and The Rosetta Key (2008). Dietrich has also set novels in the Roman Empire, Antarctica and Australia, while his non-fiction covers the natural and environmental history of the Pacific Northwest, where he grew up and worked as a newspaper journalist. The catalogue holds 20 titles, from The Final Forest (1992) to The Trojan Icon (2016).

William Faulkner

44 books• 3 series

William Faulkner wrote about Mississippi and the invented Yoknapatawpha County. Soldiers' Pay (1926) is his earliest catalogued novel, followed by Sartoris, The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930) and Sanctuary (1931), with the Snopes Trilogy later. Forty-five catalogued titles, short stories, manuscripts and facsimile editions included, run through reissues dated to 2018.

William G. Tapply, born in 1940 and died in 2009, was an American writer who published more than 40 books and lived his whole life in New England, working as a high school teacher and a college professor. Brady Coyne, a Boston lawyer who investigates, carries the mysteries he is known for, and Stoney Calhoun heads a second series. Fly fishing, one of Tapply's own pastimes, fills much of his non-fiction. Forty-seven titles span Death at Charity's Point (1984) to The Nomination (2011).

William Gibson

21 books• 9 series

William Gibson, born William Ford Gibson on March 17, 1948, is an American and Canadian writer of speculative fiction and essays. Gibson is widely credited with pioneering cyberpunk, a label Gibson has repeatedly pushed away. The early works, written from the late 1970s, were noir near-future fiction about the effects of technology, cybernetics and computer networks on people. The catalogue lists 21 books, opening with Neuromancer (1984) and including Count Zero (1986), Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988), Virtual Light (1993) and Idoru (1996). Series include Sprawl, Blue Ant and Jackpot, and subjects include cyberspace, virtual reality and business intelligence.

Sir William Golding (1911-1993) was a British novelist, playwright and poet. Lord of the Flies (1954), his debut, is the book he is known for, and twelve further volumes of fiction appeared in his lifetime. Rites of Passage took the Booker Prize in 1980 and opened the sea trilogy To the Ends of the Earth; the Nobel Prize in Literature followed in 1983 and a knighthood in 1988. Golding was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and The Times placed him third among the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. Eighteen catalogued titles close with The Double Tongue (1995).

William Goldman

29 books• 2 series

William Goldman (1931-2018) was an American novelist, screenwriter and playwright whose career ran across seven decades and produced 16 novels and numerous screenplays. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) took him the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay along with BAFTA and Golden Globe awards, and All the President's Men (1976) the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The 29 catalogued titles open with The Temple of Gold (1957) and include Boys and Girls Together (1964), The Princess Bride (1973) and Marathon Man (1974).

William Joyce

50 books• 6 series

William Joyce, born in 1957, is an American writer, illustrator and filmmaker who has produced more than 50 children's books, translated into over 40 languages. Rolie Polie Olie, the Guardians of Childhood and Dinosaur Bob are his main series, working with robots, dogs, adventure and the contest of good and evil, often in rhyme. Joyce started in film as a concept artist on Toy Story (1995) and took credits on A Bug's Life (1998) and Robots (2005); his A Day with Wilbur Robinson (1988) became the Disney film Meet the Robinsons (2007). The catalogue runs from William Joyce's Mother Goose (1984) to Scarecrow and the Nightingale (2020), at a median of 40 pages a book.

William Kent Krueger

30 books• 5 series

William Kent Krueger writes crime fiction set in Minnesota, much of it around the private investigator Cork O'Connor. The Cork O'Connor novels open with Iron Lake (1998) and run alongside Krueger's standalone novels, novellas and short stories to a catalogue of 30 books. Murder, missing persons and Ojibwa communities recur as subjects. Krueger's most recent title is God's Country, and publication continues into 2026.

Cork O'Connor, a private investigator in Minnesota, leads William Krueger's mystery series. Nineteen catalogued books run from Iron Lake (1998) to Spirit Crossing (2024), taking in Boundary Waters (1999), Purgatory Ridge (2001), Blood Hollow (2004) and Mercy Falls (2005). Missing persons, Ojibwa characters and Minnesota settings recur as subjects.

William Landay

4 books

William Landay, born in 1963, is an American novelist and former lawyer. Four books make up his catalogue: Mission Flats (2003), The Strangler (2007), Defending Jacob (2012) and All That Is Mine I Carry with Me (2023). Prosecutors, police and murder investigations around Boston supply the subject matter. No title has followed since 2023, and the catalogue is dormant.

William Lashner, born in 1956, is an American novelist who worked as a trial lawyer, serving in the Criminal Division of the United States Justice Department; NYU School of Law and the Iowa Writers' Workshop trained him, and he lives outside Philadelphia. Victor Carl, a Philadelphia lawyer, is the recurring character of the main series, which runs from Hostile Witness (1995) through Fatal Flaw and Past Due (both 2003), Falls the Shadow (2005) and Marked Man (2006) to A Killer's Kiss (2007). Kockroach (2006) appeared under the name Tyler Knox. Twenty books are catalogued, the last being Elizabeth Webster and the Chamber of Stolen Ghosts (2021).