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William Browning Spencer

9 books

William Browning Spencer, born 1946, is an American novelist and short story writer who lives in Austin, Texas; the sourced record describes the science fiction and horror stories under the name as darkly and surrealistically humorous. Nine books are catalogued, from Maybe I'll Call Anna (1990) to Penguins of the Apocalypse (2008). Résumé With Monsters (1995), The Death of the Novel (1995), Zod Wallop (1995) and Irrational Fears (1998) sit in the run, alongside The Return of Count Electric, and Other Stories (1993). Catalogue subjects record American fantasy fiction, short stories, authorship, and books and reading.

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 Christie is credited on nine books published between 1992 and 2022. The Warriors of God (1992) opens the catalogue, and three titles carry 2022 dates: Bargain With the Devil, Darkness Under Heaven and The Double Agent. Mercy Mission (2000), The Blood We Shed (2005), Threat Level (2005), The Enemy Inside (2006) and A Single Spy (2017) fill the span. Subjects record terrorism, Iran, assassination attempts and United States presidents, filed under technological, political and military thrillers. Two series are recorded: Alexsi Ivanovich Smirnov and Peter Avakian Thriller.

William Coleman has published 10 catalogued books since 2019, each credited to Coleman alone. Two series are recorded: Jack Mallory Mysteries and S. Hawke Investigations. Payback and The Widow's Husband both date from 2019, followed by Murder Revisited (2020), Nick of Time (2020), The Contract (2020), Dog Walkers (2021), First Fridays (2021), Fatal Accounting (2022) and Three Days Gone (2023). Death Before Dawn (2024) is the newest entry, and Coleman remains actively publishing.

William D. Arand writes fantasy in numbered, quickly extended series, twelve of them, including Super Sales on Super Heroes, Dungeon Deposed, VeilVerse: Cultivating Chaos, the Selfless Hero Trilogy, Save State Hero and Cavalier's Gambit. The Otherlife books open the catalogue in 2016 with Otherlife Dreams, Otherlife Awakenings and Otherlife Nightmares. Forty titles are catalogued through 2026, the most recent being Cultivating Chaos 7, at a median of 235 pages.

Diet and cardiac health are the fields William Davis writes in, with recorded subjects covering gluten-free and wheat-free eating, reducing diets, wheat hypersensitivity and coronary heart disease. Wheat Belly (2011) anchors a run of related titles including Wheat Belly Cookbook (2012), Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight! (2013) and Wheat Belly Total Health (2014). The catalogue opens earlier, with What Does My Heart Scan Show? (2007), holds 15 books in total, and reaches Super Body in 2025.

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).

Bob Burke Action Adventure is the main series in the William F. Brown catalogue, which lists 21 books from 2016 to 2026. Burke's War and Burke's Gamble opened the run in 2016, followed by Burke's Revenge and Burke's Samovar. Our Vietnam Wars appeared in at least 4 volumes between 2018 and 2020, and Amongst My Enemies is a further series. Burke's Shadows is the newest title.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

55 books• 1 series

William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008) was an American conservative writer, commentator and novelist. God and Man at Yale (1951) opens the catalogue, a year after Buckley graduated from Yale with honours; two years at the Central Intelligence Agency followed. Espionage and the Central Intelligence Agency sit among the recorded subjects, carried by the Blackford Oakes novels, the one recorded series. Politics, conservatism and journalism fill the rest. 55 titles are catalogued through to A Torch Kept Lit (2016), averaging 295 pages.

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 Elbert Gay (1941-2012) was an American novelist who also wrote short stories and essays. The catalogue lists 11 Gay titles, from The Long Home (1999) and Provinces of Night (2000) to Stories from the Attic (2022). I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down (2002), Twilight (2006) and Little Sister Death (2015) are among them. Subject headings include Tennessee, brothers, fathers and sons, carpenters, domestic fiction and single-author short stories.

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 Greenleaf, born 9 August 1948 in Illinois, is an American novelist, freelance book editor and creative writing instructor. Greenleaf graduated from Arizona State University and worked as a corporate strategic and financial planner before the change of career to fiction, and lives in New Mexico near Santa Fe after most of a life in southern Arizona. Subjects file the work as science fiction, recording interplanetary voyages, space colonies, psychics and cults. Time Jumper (1980) opens the catalogue, followed by The Tartarus Incident (1983), The Pandora Stone (1984), Starjacked (1987) and Clarion (1988); Bloodright (2011) and A Plague of Gods (2016) arrive after a gap of more than twenty years.

William H Hallahan wrote espionage thrillers, mysteries and history, with 12 books catalogued from 1974 to 2003. The series are Charlie Brewer, William H. Hallahan Standalone Novels and William H. Hallahan Non-Fiction. The Search for Joseph Tully (1974) is the first title, and The Ross Forgery followed in 1975. Catch Me, Kill Me (1978), The Monk (1983) and Foxcatcher (1986) appear in the list, and The Day the Revolution Ended (2003) is the last.

William H. Keith writes military fiction and science fiction. Naval warfare supplies much of the subject matter, from Navy SEALs and aircraft carriers to submarines, naval battles and the Vietnam War, with men's adventure and espionage alongside. The catalogue runs to 116 titles dated between 1985 and 2021, and the 1990s are its busiest decade. SEAL Team Seven, Carrier, Warstrider, Silent Service, Freedom's Rangers, Cybernarc and Renegade Legion are among the series. The listing also carries tabletop game material, sourcebooks and CD-ROM game guides under Keith's name, including Twilight: 2000 titles. No book is listed after 2021.

William H. Lovejoy writes espionage and suspense thrillers, and the catalogue records 26 books from 1990 to 2025. Lovejoy's series are the Colonel McKenna Adventure and Sub Zero books. Early titles include Black Sky and Cold Front (both 1990), Delta Blue (1991) and Ultra Deep (1992). Subjects listed for the books include cyberspace, laser weapons and the Arab-Israeli conflict, and westerns also appear in the catalogue.

William H.S. McIntyre writes legal thrillers, and Robbie Munro is the recurring figure of the Robbie Munro / Best Defense series. Recorded subjects include criminal defense lawyers, trials, murder and investigation. The catalogue holds 18 books from 2011 to 2023; Relatively Guilty (2011) is listed first, alongside Duty Man, Sharp Practice and Time Killers from the same year. Later titles include Killer Contract (2012), Present Tense (2016) and Last Will (2017), with How Come? (2023) the newest.

William Harrington has 25 books catalogued from 1963 to 2025. The first is Which the Justice, Which the Thief (1963). Harrington's series is Columbo, featuring the police lieutenant of that name, and the subjects also include political crimes, assassination, labor unions and California. Earlier novels include Trial (1970), Scorpio 5 (1974) and Partners (1981).

William Havelock has 10 catalogued books, dated between 2020 and 2026, all credited to Havelock. The run opens with The Last Dying Light (2020) and reaches Requiem of Belisarius in 2026. Two series stand under the Havelock name: Last of the Romans and Drake Trilogy. Other titles include Immortal (2021), The Gates of Carthage (2022), The Pillars of Herakles (2023), The Eternal City (2024), The Seventh Gift (2025) and The Dragon's Forge of Francis Drake (2026). Havelock remains actively publishing.

Broderick (1980) was William Heffernan's first novel; the contract for it came in 1978, when Heffernan left an investigative reporting job at the New York Daily News. Heffernan was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on August 22, 1940. The catalogue lists 19 books through The Scientology Murders (2017), including the Paul Devlin and Corsican series. Recorded subjects include police, serial murder, the Mafia, New York City and Vermont. Heffernan has received an Edgar Award, the Heywood Broun Award twice and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and once served as President of the International Association of Crime Writers.

William Hjortsberg (February 23, 1941 to April 22, 2017), known as Gatz, was an American novelist and screenwriter who wrote the screenplay for the film Legend. Hjortsberg's novel Falling Angel (1978) became the film Angel Heart (1987), and in 2015 the novel was adapted into an opera composed by J. Mark Scearce with a libretto by Lucy Thurber. The catalogue includes the Harry Angel series and runs from Alp (1969) to Angel's Inferno (2020), with Nevermore (1994) among the titles.

Duncton Wood (1980) belongs to the Duncton Chronicles of English novelist William Horwood, born in Oxford on 12 May 1944; moles and fantasy appear among the catalogue subjects. Horwood grew up in Deal on the East Kent coast, spent four childhood years in foster care, studied geography at Bristol University and edited at the Daily Mail. The catalogue lists 22 books to Winter (2013), including Skallagrigg (1987), The Willows in Winter (1993) and the Wolves of Time and Hyddenworld series.

William J. Coughlin (1929-1992) combined work as a United States administrative judge in Detroit with a career writing law and courtroom thrillers. The Charley Sloan series appears in the catalogue, with Detroit, lawyers and murder trials among the recorded subjects. Coughlin used the pseudonym Sean A. Key for The Mark of Cain (1980) and Cain's Chinese Puzzle (1981). Other novels include The Twelve Apostles (1984), Her Father's Daughter (1986), Her Honor (1987) and Shadow of a Doubt (1991). The Dividend Was Death. (1968) is the earliest listed title.

Television tie-in novels make up the William Johnston catalogue. Max Smart, The Munsters, The Flying Nun, Happy Days, Welcome Back Kotter, Doctor Kildare, The Nurses and the Brady Bunch novelisations all appear, alongside a Dick Tracy title dated 1990. Teenagers, humour and adolescence run through the subjects. The listing holds 64 books dated 1960 to 1990, at a median of 158 pages, and the run reads as complete.

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 Kelso writes military historical fiction set in the Roman world, with 27 books published from 2007 to 2025. Germania (2007) came first. Kelso's series are Soldier of the Republic, Veteran of Rome and Guardian of Empire. Many titles take place names, among them Caledonia, Hibernia, Britannia and Armenia Capta, while The Shield of Rome and The Fortune of Carthage belong to the earlier books. Three Brothers of Rome (2025) is the newest.

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.

William King

44 books• 14 series

William King, born 7 December 1959 and also known as Bill King, is a Scottish writer of science fiction and fantasy, notably for Games Workshop's Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 lines published by Black Library. The catalogue opens in 1999 with Space Wolf, Trollslayer, Skavenslayer and Daemonslayer, followed by Dragonslayer and Ragnar's Claw in 2000. King's series include Space Wolf, Tyrion & Teclis, Macharian Crusade, Kormak the Guardian, Terrach Chronicles, Dragonbond Saga and Stormtrooper 13. Fist of an Angry God (2020) is the newest title.

William Kotzwinkle is an American novelist, children's writer and screenwriter, born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Doctor Rat took the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1977, and Kotzwinkle also holds a National Magazine Award for fiction. He wrote the novelisation of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and the E.T. books sit in a catalogue of 49 titles running from Elephant Bangs Train (1969) to Bloody Martini (2023). Walter the Farting Dog, Inspector Mantis Mysteries and Felonious Monk Mystery are the other named series. Kotzwinkle has been married to the author Elizabeth Gundy since 1970.

William Kowalski is an American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter, born on August 3, 1970. The debut novel Eddie's Bastard (1999) is the best-known work. The Hundred Hearts (2013) won the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. Kowalski has also written short novels for adult literacy programs, and the work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. The catalogue holds 14 books from 1999 to Jumped In (2017), including Somewhere South of Here (2001) and The Barrio Kings (2010).

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 Kuhn writes biography and history centred on monarchy and royal courts, with subject headings naming British politics from 1837 to 1901 and Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby. Democratic Royalism (1996) is the first of 12 catalogued books, followed by Henry and Mary Ponsonby (2004) and The Politics of Pleasure (2005). Reading Jackie (2010), Mrs Queen Takes the Train (2012) and The Isabella Club (2018) come later. The Eight Friends of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis series is also listed, and Swimming with Lord Byron (2024) is the newest.

William L. Shirer

14 books• 2 series

William L. Shirer (1904 to 1993) was an American journalist, war correspondent and historian. The Chicago Tribune hired Shirer in 1925; later came the International News Service, and Shirer became Edward R. Murrow's first hire for the CBS radio team called Murrow's Boys. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1960) is Shirer's history of Nazi Germany. The catalogue spans 14 books, from Berlin Diary (1941) to This Is Berlin (2014), and includes the 20th Century Journey series.

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).

William Le Queux

153 books

William Le Queux was a French-English journalist and writer who lived from 1864 to 1927. Le Queux wrote invasion and espionage fiction, including The Great War in England in 1897 (1894), and the catalogue records 153 titles from Guilty Bonds (1891) onward. Le Queux served as honorary consul for San Marino, officiated at the first British air meeting at Doncaster in 1909, and broadcast music from his own wireless station before radio reached the public. His accounts of his own exploits were usually exaggerated.

William Makepeace Thackeray

63 books• 1 series

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was an English novelist and illustrator known for satire. Vanity Fair, serialised across 1847 and 1848, draws a panorama of British society; The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844) reached the screen in Stanley Kubrick's 1975 film. Thackeray was born in Calcutta and sent to England after his father's death in 1815, attended Trinity College, Cambridge briefly, and lost much of an inheritance to gambling and failed newspapers. The catalogue records 63 titles dated 1837 to 2019, from The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush onward, and the 1840s were the busiest decade.

William Martin writes American historical fiction, and 13 books are catalogued under his name. Back Bay (1979) opens the run and December '41 (2022) closes it. Peter Fallon recurs as a character across the main series, and the novels take their material from United States history: Massachusetts, Cape Cod, Annapolis, Maryland, the presidency, and the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland. Cape Cod (1991), Harvard Yard (2003) and The Lost Constitution (2007) sit in the middle of the run.

William McIlvanney

16 books• 3 series

William McIlvanney (25 November 1936 - 5 December 2015) was a Scottish novelist, poet and short story writer, known to friends as Gus. McIlvanney is called the father of Tartan Noir, and Laidlaw, The Papers of Tony Veitch and Walking Wounded depict Glasgow in the 1970s. The fictional Jack Laidlaw and police procedurals appear in the subjects. The 16 catalogued books run from Remedy is None (1966) to Dreaming Scotland (2014), and Docherty (1975) and The Big Man (1985) are among them.

William McRaven writes on special operations, leadership and service. Spec Ops (2009) and Operation KINGPIN (2016) are military history; Make Your Bed (2017), The Hero Code (2021) and The Wisdom of the Bullfrog (2023) set out lessons for a general readership, and Sea Stories (2019) is memoir. Two picture books, Make Your Bed with Skipper the Seal (2021) and Be a Hero with Skipper the Seal (2025), carry the same material to children. Ten titles reach Duty, Honor, Country, and Life (2026).

William Meikle is a Scottish author living in Canada. Horror, thrillers, historical fiction, science fiction and detective stories are the catalogued subjects. The listing holds 181 titles published between 2001 and 2026, opening with The Johnson Amulet and Other Scottish Terrors (2001) and reaching Operation Bavaria (2026). Meikle writes pastiche around Sherlock Holmes, Watson and Moriarty, and around Carnacki. Series under Meikle's name include S-Squad, Sigils and Totems, the Midnight Eye Files, Holmes and Challenger, the Land Below, London Terrors and Blood of the Martyrs.

William Miller is credited with three catalogued series: Jake Noble, Mackenzie and Cole Paranormal Mysteries and Junior Owens Case Files. The 12 books run from Noble Man (2015) to Noble Betrayal (2025). Noble Vengeance, Noble Intent, Noble Sanction, Noble Asset, Noble Storm and Noble Fall appeared in between. The Devil His Due (2021), Skin in the Game (2022) and Gunn Work (2024) are also listed. Miller is still publishing.

William Nicholson's catalogue spans drama, fantasy and contemporary fiction. Shadowlands (1989) and The Retreat from Moscow (2004) sit in a listing that records British and Irish drama among its subjects, along with fantasy, faith, twins, self-realization and conduct of life. Four groupings are catalogued: the Wind on Fire Trilogy, the Noble Warriors Trilogy, All The Hopeful Lovers and a set of poems. The listing runs to 33 titles dated between 1979 and 2019, taking in The Wind Singer (2000), Slaves of the Mastery (2001), Firesong (2002) and Seeker (2005).

William Nolan wrote science fiction, horror and hard-boiled mystery, and biography alongside them. Logan's Run (1967) heads a strand that continues in Logan's World (1977), and the Logan character is indexed to Nolan in the subject headings. Motor racing supplies another: Barney Oldfield: The Life and Times of America's Legendary Speed King (1961), Carnival of Speed (1973) and Steve McQueen: Star on Wheels (1972). The 46 catalogued books span 1956 to 2020 and close with Writing as Life (2020). Series include the Black Mask Boys and Sam Space.

William Peter Blatty

15 books• 4 series

William Peter Blatty (1928-2017) was an American novelist, screenwriter, director and producer, best known for The Exorcist (1971). Blatty wrote the screenplay for the 1973 film and won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, was nominated for Best Picture as its producer, and took a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Drama in the same role. The 15 catalogued books open with Which Way to Mecca, Jack? (1960) and include Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane (1966), The Ninth Configuration (1978), Legion (1983) and Finding Peter (2015). Blatty grew up in New York City and studied English at Georgetown University and George Washington University.

War stories spanning World War II, Korea and Vietnam make up the series of William Peter Grasso, whose 24 books are catalogued from 2011 to 2026. Grasso's series include Jock Miles WWII Adventure, Moon Brothers WWII Adventure, the Jock Miles-Moon Brothers Korean War Story, Miles To Vietnam and Jif Miles: The Late Cold War Years. East Wind Returns (2011) is the first book, and Helmet Full Of Sand (2026) is the newest.

William R. Forstchen is an American historian and author, a Professor of History and Faculty Fellow at Montreat College in North Carolina, holding a doctorate from Purdue University. Military and alternative history, thrillers and speculative events run through the work. Three alternate Civil War novels were written with the politician Newt Gingrich, two of those with the writer Albert S. Hanser as well, and three further novels cover George Washington in the American Revolutionary War. The catalogue records 41 books from Ice Prophet (1983) to Five Years After (2023), with Lost Regiment and After/John Matherson among the series listed.

William Ritter is an American writer of fantasy and mystery for young readers. Ten books are catalogued between Jackaby (2014) and Rook (2023), among them Beastly Bones (2015), Ghostly Echoes (2016), The Dire King (2017), Changeling (2019), The Unready Queen (2020) and Deepest, Darkest (2021). Jackaby and Oddmire are Ritter's catalogued series. Recorded subjects include imaginary creatures, monsters, the supernatural, murder and detective stories, in children's fiction.

William S. Burroughs

39 books• 2 series

William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) was an American writer and visual artist and a central figure of the Beat Generation. Drug addiction, unreliable narration and semi-autobiographical material shape the fiction, which begins with Junky in 1953 under the name William Lee and takes in Naked Lunch (1959). Burroughs and Brion Gysin together popularised the cut-up, a chance-based method of composing text. The Nova Trilogy and the Red Night Trilogy group parts of the work, and 39 catalogued titles run as far as The Finger in 2018.

William S. Cohen

16 books• 1 series

William S. Cohen, born August 28, 1940, is an American attorney, author and Republican politician. Cohen sat in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1979 and in the Senate from 1979 to 1997, then served as secretary of defense under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001. The catalogue runs from Of Sons and Seasons (1978) to Final Strike (2018), taking in Roll Call (1981), The Double Man (1985), Men of Zeal (1988) and Murder in the Senate (1992). The Sean Falcone series is listed under the name.

William Sarabande is the pen name of Joan Lesley Hamilton Cline, who started writing at 17 and first appeared in print in 1979. The First Americans series carries the Sarabande name across 12 catalogued books, from Beyond the Sea of Ice (1987) through Corridor of Storms (1988), Walkers of the Wind (1990) and Thunder in the Sky (1992) to Spirit Moon (2000). Subjects cover prehistoric peoples, Native Americans and historical fiction. The catalogue opens with Wolves of the Dawn (1986), filed with Celts and the Bronze Age.

William Savage wrote the Ashmole Foxe and Dr. Adam Bascom series, which together account for 16 catalogued books from 2015 to 2022. An Unlamented Death and The Fabric of Murder are the 2015 titles. A Shortcut to Murder, Dark Threads of Vengeance and The Code for Killing followed in 2016, and A Tincture of Secrets and Lies in 2017. Bad Blood Will Out (2018) and A Sickness in the Soul (2019) come later. Foxe and the Black Beast (2022) is the newest title.

William Sears is catalogued under parenting, with 12 books from The Birth Book (1994) to the Healthy Pregnancy Book (2013). Titles include The Attachment Parenting Book (2001), The Premature Baby Book (2004), Baby Sleep Book (2005), The Autism Book (2010) and The Vaccine Book (2011). Subject headings list infant care, child development, children's sleep, nutrition and obesity in children.

William Shakespeare

49 books• 5 series

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor, born around 23 April 1564 and died on 23 April 1616. Shakespeare is widely ranked as the greatest writer in English and the leading dramatist in the world, and is called England's national poet and the Bard of Avon. The surviving works, collaborations included, number about 39 plays, 154 sonnets and 3 long narrative poems. The plays exist in every major living language and are staged more often than those of any other playwright. The catalogue sorts the plays into Comedy Plays, Tragedy Plays and History Plays, with titles such as King John, Richard II, Henry V, The Tempest and The Comedy of Errors.

William Shatner

33 books• 8 series

William Shatner, born on 22 March 1931, is a Canadian actor who played Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek from 1966 to 1994, from the second pilot of the original television series to Star Trek Generations. Shatner started in Canadian film and television before guest roles on American shows. The catalogue lists 33 Shatner books, from Shatner: Where No Man ... (1979) to Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder (2022), including TekWar (1989), Star Trek Memories (1993) and The Ashes of Eden (1995). Series include Quest for Tomorrow, Star Trek: Odyssey, Star Trek: The Mirror Universe Trilogy and Star Trek: Totality.