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. Phillip Keller wrote Christian devotional books drawn from the natural world and from shepherding. A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23 (1970) sits at the centre of the Shepherd Trilogy, and the David series follows the king of Israel. The catalogue holds 55 titles dated 1959 to 2021, opening with Africa's Wild Glory (1959) and closing with Splendour From the Land (2021). Natural history, meditations and Christian biography run through the subjects, at a median of 164 pages.

W. Somerset Maugham

89 books• 1 series

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was an English novelist, playwright and short story writer. Born in Paris and schooled in England, Maugham qualified as a physician in London in 1897 and never practised, publishing Liza of Lambeth the same year - a novel of slum life. The stage brought fame first: by 1908 four Maugham plays ran at once in the West End. The catalogue records 89 titles dated 1897 to 2009, averaging 235 pages, with the 1930s the busiest decade. Travel writing and biography sit beside the fiction, and a Collected Short Stories line gathers the shorter work.

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.

Charles Wycliffe is the detective in most of W.J. Burley's crime fiction, a police procedural run set largely in Cornwall. The catalogue holds 29 books dated 1968 to 2000, at a median of 192 pages, from Wycliffe and the Three Toed Pussy to Wycliffe and the Guild of Nine. The 1970s is the heaviest decade, taking in Wycliffe and the Guilt Edged Alibi (1971), Wycliffe and the Pea Green Boat (1975) and Wycliffe and the School Bullies (1976). A Henry Pym series and a set of standalone novels complete the listing.

W.J. May is credited with 184 books in the catalogue, published between 2012 and 2026. The listing opens with Shadow of Doubt (2012) and reaches Anguish (2026). May's series include Chronicles of Kerrigan, with a prequel and a sequel line, plus Kerrigan Kids, Viking Tales, Queen's Alpha, Omega Queen, Fae Wilds, Paranormal Huntress and Mending Magic. Other titles include Rae of Hope, Seventh Mark and Radium Halos. W.J. May is still publishing.

W.R. Gingell writes fantasy, with 42 books in the catalogue from A Time Traveller's Best Friend (2013) to Splintered Loyalty (2026). Series listings include City Between, Two Monarchies Sequence, Worlds Behind, Shattered World, Shards of a Broken Sword, Lady and Time Traveller's Best Friend. Early titles include Ruth and the Ghost (2013), Masque (2014), Spindle (2015), Wolfskin (2015) and Twelve Days of Faery (2015).

W.T. Quick / Margaret Allan is one catalogue entry covering two pen names, with all 16 books credited to the combined name. Catalogue subjects split between science fiction and technological thrillers on one side and historical fiction on the other, listing prehistoric peoples, Celts and Romans. The run opens with Dreams of Flesh and Sand (1988) and continues through Dreams of Gods and Men (1989) and Singularities (1990). Several titles are annotated in the listing as W.T. Quick works, among them Systems (1989), Yesterday's Pawn (1989) and Inner Circles (2011), and Chains of Light (1992) carries a third name, Quentin Thomas. The Mammoth Stone (1993), Keeper of the Stone (1994) and The Last Mammoth (1995) also sit here, and Mammoth Trilogy is the series recorded under this entry.

Wadsworth Camp was an American author of mysteries and potboilers. The early run of books appeared between 1915 and 1922: Sinister Island (1915), House of Fear (1916), The Abandoned Room (1917), The Gray Mask (1920), The Guarded Heights (1921) and The Hidden Road (1922). Three further entries in the listing carry modern dates, among them The Abandoned Room and Other Works by Wadsworth Camp (2010) and War's Dark Frame (2018). Subject headings file the work as historical mystery, thriller and suspense, and the books reach a median of 172 pages.

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.

Wallace Stroby, born in 1960, is an American crime novelist and journalist. Four of the novels feature Crissa Stone, a professional thief. Two series are catalogued to the name: Crissa Stone and Harry Rane. Recorded subjects include crime, female offenders, hard-boiled mystery, private investigators, policewomen and New Jersey. Ten books run from The Barbed-Wire Kiss (2003) to Heaven's a Lie (2021), taking in Gone 'til November (2010), Cold Shot to the Heart (2011), Shoot the Woman First (2013) and Some Die Nameless (2018).

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.

Walt Whitman

60 books• 3 series

Walt Whitman (Walter Whitman Jr., May 31, 1819 to March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist who also wrote two novels. Whitman drew on both transcendentalism and realism and is often called the father of free verse. Leaves of Grass (1855) drew charges of obscenity from some readers for its open sensuality. Born in Huntington on Long Island, Whitman grew up in Brooklyn and left school at 11 to work. The catalogue lists 60 books, including Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate (1842), Drum Taps (1865) and Oh Captain! My Captain! (1865).

Walter Dumaux Edmonds was an American historical novelist who lived from 1903 to 1998. Drums Along the Mohawk (1936) is the Edmonds novel best known, and John Ford directed a 1939 Technicolor film version with Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert. The catalogue lists 23 books through 1995, including Rome Haul, Chad Hanna and The Matchlock Gun. Frontier life, canals and New York State are the main subjects.

Walter Dean Myers (born Walter Milton Myers; August 12, 1937 - July 1, 2014) was an American writer known above all for young adult literature. Myers was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, grew up in Harlem, and turned to writing after a hard childhood, with encouragement from teachers. Myers wrote more than 100 books, picture books and nonfiction among them, and won the Coretta Scott King Award five times. Fallen Angels (1988) ranks among the most frequently challenged books in the U.S. for adult language and realistic depiction of the Vietnam War. The catalogue lists 123 books starting with The Dancers (1972), including Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff (1975) and The Young Landlords (1979).

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 J. Boyne (February 2, 1929 to January 9, 2020) was a United States Air Force officer, command pilot, combat veteran and aviation historian. Boyne wrote more than 50 books and over 1,000 magazine articles, served as a director of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum and chaired the National Aeronautic Association. The catalogue lists 50 books from The Jet Age (1979) to Golden Age of Flight (2020), including Messerschmitt Me 262 (1980), Boeing B 52 (1981), Phantom in Combat (1985) and The Wild Blue: The Novel of the U.S. Air Force (1986). Subjects cover military airplanes, jet planes, air warfare, the US Air Force and Operation Desert Shield. Jet Age Trilogy is the series listed.

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 Marks, born in New York on 15 January 1934, is an American songwriter, playwright, screenwriter and novelist. Marks wrote the song I've Gotta Be Me, recorded by Sammy Davis Jr, Tony Bennett and Michael Jackson, along with songs taken up by Barbra Streisand, The Temptations and Della Reese. The mystery catalogue under the name holds 9 books, from Death Hampton (2014) to Murder on Morgue Street (2025), with The Battle of Jericho, The Hated and Rip Saw among them.

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.

Walter R. Borneman writes history and biography, with subject tags covering the Second World War, United States naval operations and American railroads. A Climbing Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners (1978) is the first of 15 catalogued books, and Guidebooks is among the subject tags, alongside Colorado's Other Mountains (1984) and 14,000 Feet (2005) in the list. Other titles include 1812 (2004), The French and Indian War (2006), Polk (2008) and Rival Rails (2010). Brothers Down (2019) is the newest.

Freddy the Pig is the detective, politician and traveller at the centre of Walter R. Brooks's children's books, set among the talking animals of the Bean Farm in upstate New York. Brooks (1886-1958) also wrote the short stories about Mister Ed, a talking horse, which reached television after his death. The catalogue holds 32 titles, opening with Freddy Goes to Florida (1927) and running through Freddy Goes to the North Pole, Freddy the Detective, Freddy the Politician and Freddy and the Bean Home News. Volumes average 244 pages, and editions here carry dates as late as 2002.

Walter Satterthwait was an American writer who lived from 1946 to 2020. The catalogue records 19 books from Cocaine Blues (1980) to New York Nocturne (2011). Satterthwait's two series are Joshua Croft and Miss Lizzie, and subject tags include private investigators and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Wall of Glass (1988), At Ease with the Dead (1990), Wilde West (1991) and Escapade (1995) are among the titles. The list is treated as likely complete.

Walter Tevis

9 books• 1 series

Walter Tevis (1928-1984) was an American novelist and screenwriter. Three of six novels reached the screen as films: The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Hustler and The Color of Money. A fourth, The Queen's Gambit, was adapted as a Netflix miniseries in 2020, and the books have been translated into at least 18 languages. The catalogue lists nine titles under the name, from The Hustler (1959) through to entries dated 2010 and 2023, decades after Tevis died. Five books have a recorded length, at a median of 223 pages.

Walter Wager (1924-2004) was an American crime and espionage-thriller novelist who also served as editor-in-chief of Playbill magazine. Telefon reached the screen with Charles Bronson in the lead, and 58 Minutes became Die Hard 2, starring Bruce Willis. The catalogue holds 30 books between 1954 and 2002, several published under the names John Tiger and Walter Hermann and including I Spy and Mission: Impossible tie-ins. Las Vegas, the Mafia, women detectives and the intelligence service appear among the recorded subjects, and the run is marked likely complete.

Walter Wick, born February 23, 1953, is an American photographer and artist who builds picture puzzle books for young children. Wick created the images for the I Spy books and the Can You See What I See? series, both from Scholastic. His 27 catalogued titles run from A Drop Of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder (1997) to Hidden Wonders (2021) and have a median length of 35 pages.

Wanda Coven writes children's fiction, with 62 books catalogued from 2012 to 2026. Heidi Heckelbeck Has a Secret (2012) opens the list, alongside Heidi Heckelbeck Casts a Spell, Heidi Heckelbeck Gets Glasses and Heidi Heckelbeck and the Cookie Contest from the same year. The newest title is Henry Heckelbeck at the Mega Magic Mart (2026). Subjects include witches, magic, schools, best friends, pets and family life. Coven is still publishing.

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.

Christian life, frontier and pioneer history, and the American Revolution of 1775-1783 run through Wanda Luttrell's catalogue. The listing holds 19 books dated between 1971 and 2015, from The House of Elnora Garland (1971) to Straight on to Murder (2015), with Luttrell the sole credited writer throughout. Two series appear under the Luttrell name: Sarah's Journey and Immigrants Chronicles. Recorded subjects also take in slavery, emigration and immigration, spies, historical adventure and juvenile literature.

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.

Cal Claxton is the recurring figure in Warren C. Easley's mysteries, and the Cal Claxton series carries the Easley credit. Ten books are catalogued between 2013 and 2024, from Matters of Doubt (2013) to Deadly Redemption (2024). Portland and Oregon head the places indexed, with murder investigation, cold cases and legal stories among the subject headings. Dead Float (2014), Never Look Down (2015), Blood For Wine (2017), No Way to Die (2019), No Witness (2021) and Fatal Flaw (2023) also sit in the run.

Warren Burton Murphy was an American author, born September 13, 1933, who died on September 4, 2015. Murphy co-created The Destroyer series, which became the basis for the film Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. The catalogue opens with Created The Destroyer (1971), followed in 1972 by Chinese Puzzle, Death Check and Mafia Fix, and counts 155 books in total. Remo and Chiun are listed as fictitious characters, and subjects include men's adventure, action and adventure, pulp and crime. Other series are Trace, Razoni & Jackson, New Destroyer, Forever King and Grandmaster.

Warren W. Wiersbe (1929-2019) was an American clergyman and Bible teacher whose writing covers commentary, sermons and Christian living. The Be Commentary titles, including Be Real, Be Joyful, Be Free and Be Rich, form the core of a catalogue of 282 books. Publication spans Thoughts for Men on the Move (1970) to Becoming New: 100 Days of Transformation through God's Word (2024). Wiersbe pastored Moody Church in Chicago from 1971 to 1978 and later directed the Back to the Bible radio ministry.

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.

Watt Key

10 books• 1 series

Albert Watkins Key Jr. publishes as Watt Key and as Albert Key, and the American author's work is young-adult survival fiction. Key lives in Alabama. The debut novel, Alabama Moon, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2006, won the 2007 E.B. White Read-Aloud Award for older readers and a 2006 Parents' Choice Award, has been translated into eight languages, and was made into a 2009 feature film starring John Goodman; TIME Magazine listed it in 2015 among the top 100 young-adult books of all time. The catalogue holds 10 titles reaching Cottonlandia (2021), with Dirt Road Home (2010), Fourmile (2012), Terror at Bottle Creek (2016) and Deep Water (2018) among them.

Wayetu Moore

9 books

Wayétu Moore, born in 1985, is a Liberian-American author and social entrepreneur. Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Entertainment Weekly and BuzzFeed each named the debut novel She Would Be King, issued by Graywolf Press in September 2018, among the best books of that year, and Time, The New York Times and The New Yorker reviewed it positively. Moore has published work in The Paris Review, Guernica Magazine and The Atlantic, and took a Lannan Literary Fellowship for fiction in 2019. Nine books are catalogued, including 1 Peking (2010), A Gift for Yole, I Love Liberia, J is for Jollof Rice and My Little Musu (2011), and The Dragons, the Giant, the Women (2020).

The catalogue lists 11 books by Wayne Allen Sallee, published between 1992 and 2022. The Holy Terror (1992) is the earliest, followed by Pain Grin (1993) and Lover Doll (1994). True Tales of the Scarlet Sponge (2001), With Wounds Still Wet (2010), Double Dare (2012), For You the Living (2012) and Proactive Contrition: A Meta-Memoir (2012) come next, then I Can't Come Clean (2014). Rapid Transit: Volume 1 (2017) and Rapid Transit: Volume 2 (2022) are the two most recent entries. Sallee is marked dormant.

Wayne D. Dundee is the author of the Joe Hannibal Mystery series, and Joe Hannibal appears in the catalogue subjects as a fictitious character alongside private investigators. The 43 books run from Shooting Match (1985) to Diablo Gold (2025), with The Burning Season (1988) and The Skintight Shroud (1989) among the early titles. Other series are Lone McGantry, Bodie Kendrick - Bounty Hunter and Braska. Subjects also include serial murderers, pet theft, women journalists and westerns.

Wayne Jordan writes African American romance. Musicians, singers, social workers and counsellors appear among the recorded subjects, alongside love stories and erotic romance. The Knight Trilogy is the named series, and three titles carry Knight in the name: One Gentle Knight (2007), To Love A Knight (2007) and Always A Knight (2008). Fifteen books are listed from Slow Motion (2005) to By Her Command (2021), with Embracing The Moonlight (2006), Midnight Kisses (2010) and I'll Stand by You (2013) among them.

Wayne Kyle Spitzer is an American author, illustrator and low-budget horror filmmaker from Spokane, Washington, and the founding editor of the magazines Dark Horses, Black Sheep and Mobius Blvd. The Flashback cycle dominates his catalogue: Flashback (1993) opens it, and A Survivor's Guide to the Dinosaur Apocalypse, Tales from the Flashback and Legends of the Flashback extend it. The listing holds 149 titles through 2023, most of them very short at a median of 27 pages.

Wayne Simmons writes horror. Subjects filed against the catalogue record zombies, influenza and Northern Ireland. Drop Dead Gorgeous (2008) opens eight catalogued books and gives its name to the series under the Simmons credit; Flu (2010), Doll Parts (2012), Fever (2012), Plastic Jesus (2013), The Girl in the Basement (2014) and Voodoo Child (2015) follow, and Xinners (2018) is the most recent title.

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.

Wayne W. Dyer

47 books• 1 series

Wayne W. Dyer (May 10, 1940 - August 29, 2015) was an American self-help author and motivational speaker. Dyer completed a bachelor's degree in history and philosophy, a master's in psychology and, in 1970, an Ed.D. in guidance and counseling at Wayne State University. After working as a high school guidance counselor and running a private therapy practice, Dyer taught counselor education at St. John's University, where a literary agent's approach produced Your Erroneous Zones (1976). Success, spiritual life, meditation and self-realization appear among the subjects, and Pulling Your Own Strings (1978) and You'll See It When You Believe It (1989) are among the 47 catalogued books.

Wen Spencer

25 books• 6 series

Wen Spencer is an American science fiction and fantasy novelist, born in 1963, who won the 2003 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Spencer grew up on a farm in Evans City, Pennsylvania and studied information science at the University of Pittsburgh. The Ukiah Oregon series follows a part-alien character with werewolf-like kin, and the Elfhome books turn a brilliant young woman into an elf. The catalogue lists 25 books from Alien Taste (2001) to 2025.

Wend Petzler is credited on 9 catalogued books published between 2007 and 2020, sorted by the catalogue into four series: Borne Vampires, Blood Keep, Vampire Wars and Thieves of Honor. Blood Keep (2007) is the earliest title and Whisper to Me (2020) the latest. Four books carry a 2018 date - Bite Me, Fate Untold, Mine and Undead My Heart. One book has a recorded length of 434 pages.

Wendelin Van Draanen is an American writer of children's and young-adult fiction. Sammy Keyes anchors the list, a mystery series opening with Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief (1998) that names its case in every title, and the Shredderman and Gecko and Sticky books follow. Flipped (2001) stands outside the series. The catalogue holds 38 books between How I Survived Being a Girl (1997) and The Steps (2025), at a median of 256 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).

Wendi Silvano writes early readers and picture books, averaging 32 pages a volume. Turkey Trouble is the one recorded series, running to Turkey's Fall Fumble (2026) with Turkey's Leprechaun Trap scheduled for 2027. The wider catalogue holds 113 titles dated 2000 onward, opening with Pancakes for Breakfast and taking in the Duck and Goose books of 2004 to 2006. Holidays supply much of the subject matter: Valentine's Day, Santa Claus and turkeys all appear in the record.

Sgt Major Crane is Wendy Cartmell's recurring investigator, carrying three of the nine recorded series: Sgt Major Crane, Crane & Anderson and Crane Cold Case Thrillers. Jo Wolfe, Emma Harrison Mystery, Muddlebay Mysteries, Moorland Shadows, Alex Morgan Paranormal Investigator and a haunted short-story line complete the list. Cartmell has 50 catalogued books dated 2011 to 2026, opening with Steps to Heaven and 40 Days 40 Nights in 2011 and reaching The Wrecker's Map. Volumes average 260 pages.

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.

Wendy Delaney writes mystery, and Working Stiffs Mystery is the one series in the catalogue. Ten books are listed from Trudy, Madly, Deeply (2013) to Better Wed Than Dead (2024), taking in Sex, Lies, and Snickerdoodles (2014), There's Something about Marty (2016), You Can't Go Gnome Again (2016), Dogs, Lies, and Alibis (2018), Crazy, Stupid, Dead (2019), No Wedding for Old Men (2019), A Kiwi Before Dying (2021) and Farewell, Mr. Lovely (2023). The catalogue marks the run as ongoing.

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 Francis writes about families and friendship: the subject headings cover sisters, mothers and daughters, family secrets, divorced women, new mothers, female friendship, coffeehouses and bakeries. Eight catalogued books run from Three Good Things (2013) to Betting on Good (2025), including The Summer of Good Intentions (2015), The Summer Sail (2018), Summertime Guests (2021) and Feels Like Summer (2024). The Joel Frederick Short Story series belongs to Francis, who is still publishing.

Thrillers for adults and for young adults make up Wendy Heard's catalogue, which the listing also files under mystery and children's fiction. Heard is an American novelist credited on 8 books. Hunting Annabelle (2018) opens the run, then The Kill Club (2019), She's Too Pretty to Burn (2021), Dead End Girls (2022), and We'll Never Tell and You Can Trust Me (2023). Such a Lucky Girl carries a 2026 date, and How the Story Always Ends is listed for 2027.