Authors whose first name starts with W, page 4 of 4

William Shaw came to crime fiction from journalism, having written for The Observer, The New York Times, Wired, Arena and The Face and taken Amazon UK's Music Journalist of the Year award in 2003. Non-fiction came first: Westside (2000), a year spent among young men in South Central Los Angeles, and A Superhero for Hire (2004), collected columns from the Observer Magazine. The Breen and Tozer trilogy opens with A Song From Dead Lips / She's Leaving Home (2013), setting Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen and Constable Helen Tozer against London in 1968 and 1969. DS Alexandra Cupidi and DS Eden Driscoll lead later series, and Shaw's 18 catalogued books reach The Burning Tide (2026) at a median of 410 pages.

William Styron

20 books• 1 series

William Clark Styron Jr. (1925–2006) was an American novelist and essayist. The Confessions of Nat Turner won Styron the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1968. Twenty books are catalogued under Styron's name, among them Lie Down in Darkness, The Long March, Sophie's Choice (1979) and This Quiet Dust: And Other Writings (1982); the most recent, My Generation, is dated 2015. Recorded subjects include the Korean War, suicide, families, young women and correspondence.

William Trevor, born William Trevor Cox on 24 May 1928 and died 20 November 2016, was an Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer, widely rated among the finest short story writers in English. Trevor won the Whitbread Prize three times and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, most recently for Love and Summer (2009), which also reached the International Dublin Literary Award shortlist in 2011. He took the International Nonino Prize in 2008 and was made a Saoi of Aosdana in 2014. His catalogue holds 55 titles, from A Standard of Behaviour (1958) to Last Stories (2018).

William W. Forgey writes on wilderness medicine and outdoor first aid. Forgey's Wilderness Medicine (1979) opens a catalogue of 18 books that reaches The Prepper's Guide to Surviving Pandemics, Bioterrorism, and Infectious Disease in 2021. Hypothermia, medical emergencies, wilderness survival, travel and the treatment of mountaineering and backpacking injuries are the recorded subjects. The books are short, with a median of 106 pages, and the 1990s hold the densest run of titles.

William Wallace Johnstone, October 28, 1938 to February 8, 2004, was an American author of westerns, horror and survivalist fiction. The Devil's Kiss opened the run in 1981, followed by The Last of the Dog Team (1981), Out of the Ashes (1983) and Anarchy in the Ashes (1984). Series filed under the name include Ashes, First Mountain Man, Smoke Jensen, Last Gunfighter, Blood Bond and Duff MacCallister, and subjects include outlaws, frontier and pioneer life, revenge and Texas. The catalogue carries 544 titles under the Johnstone name dated 1981 to 2026, well past the 2004 death date, and 400 of them carry a William W. Johnstone credit.

Father Robert Koesler, a Catholic priest in Detroit, Michigan, is the detective in the mystery series by William X. Kienzle. The catalogue lists 24 books from The Rosary Murders (1979) to The Gathering (2002), and the Father Koesler series makes up the whole run. Death Wears a Red Hat (1980) and Mind Over Murder (1981) came next. Clergy and the Catholic Church are the dominant subjects. The Kienzle catalogue is listed as likely complete.

Willo Davis Roberts was an American writer, living from May 29, 1928 to November 19, 2004, known mainly for award-winning mystery and suspense novels for children. The catalogue lists 92 Roberts titles, opening with Murder at Grand Bay (1955). Nurse Kay's Conquest and Once a nurse (both 1966) and Nurse at Mystery Villa (1967) come from the earlier decades, and Shroud of Fog and The Devil Boy date from 1970. Subject tags include brothers and sisters, orphans, grandmothers and child abuse, and Black Pearl is the named series.

Willow Aster has 29 books catalogued from 2013 to 2026, beginning with True Love Story and In the Fields (both 2013). Aster writes about characters who beat the odds and about love that endures, and co-writes The End of Men series with Tarryn Fisher. Series include Single Dad Playbook, Windy Harbor, Kingdoms of Sin, La Jolla and Landmark Mountain. Fade to Red (2015), Lilith (2017), Miles Ahead (2019) and Miles Apart (2019) sit mid-catalogue, and Now and Forever (2026) is the newest.

Twenty-three books are catalogued under Willow Dixon, published from 2022 onward. Five series divide them: Crimson Club, Silvercrest U, Never Have I Ever, Legacy Mechanics and Heroes at Home. Punched My Roommate's V-Card (2022) is the first catalogued title, ten more arrived across 2022 and 2023, and Secrets and Lies (2026) is the newest.

Willow Fox writes romance, and published earlier as Ruth Silver. The catalogue holds 69 books between 2012 and 2026, opening with The Wedding Photography Guide for Brides (2012), written as Ruth Silver, and reaching Between Control and Chaos (2026). Twelve series are catalogued, among them Mafia Marriages, Bratva Brothers, Eagle Tactical, the Federal Agent Chronicles, Ice Dragons Hockey, Bossy Single Dad, Academy of Littles and Crimson Ice. Love Forbidden (2013), Dead Girl Walking (2014) and Dating Wars (2015) sit early in the run.

Willow Rose has 108 books catalogued from Beyond (2011) to Every Breath You Take (2026). Serial killers, murder investigations, criminal profilers and women journalists are the common subjects. The Rose series include Eva Rae Thomas Mystery, Emma Frost, Rebekka Franck, Jack Ryder, Harry Hunter Mystery and Detective Billie Ann Wilde, plus Vampires of Shadow Hills and Horror Stories from Denmark. One, Two ... He Is Coming For You (2011) is among the early titles.

Willow Winters is a romance author with USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller credits. The catalogue lists 119 Winters titles, from Bought (2016) to Signed in Blood (2026), with Promised to Ruin due in 2027. Subject tags include dark romance, mafia romance, contemporary romance, erotica, second chance and enemies to lovers. Series include Merciless, Sins and Secret, Valetti Crime Family, This Love Hurts, To Be Claimed and Irresistible Attraction, alongside a line of short stories and novellas. Winters continues to publish.

Wilson Harp is credited on all 10 books catalogued under this name, published between 2000 and 2017. The listing is bracketed by two titles on Bible stories, Bible Stories for Grown-Ups (2000) and Bible Stories for New Christians (2017). Between them sit Bright Horizons (2012), Eclipse (2013), The Ghost of Sherwood (2013), EMP (2014), Moonlight in the Valley (2014), Heading Home (2015), Mosar (2015) and The Alabaster Throne (2016). Bright Horizons and Fall of Atlantis are the two series recorded here.

Winnie Griggs writes historical and inspirational romance. Catalogue subjects include Texas, Christian romance, mail order brides, widows, widowers, orphans and marriage. The catalogue lists 40 books, from What Matters Most and Something More (both 2001) to The Heart of Honor (2026). Series credited to Griggs are Texas Grooms, Knotty Pines, Hope's Haven, Everharts of Texas, Sweetbrier Creek and Unexpected Sinclares.

Winston Graham (30 June 1908 to 10 July 2003) was an English novelist, born Winston Grime, who took the name Graham by deed poll on 7 May 1947. The Poldark historical novels, set in Cornwall, are the best-known Graham work, and Ross Poldark and the Napoleonic Wars appear in the subject headings. Graham also wrote contemporary thrillers, period novels, short stories, plays and non-fiction, and held an OBE. The 48 catalogued books run from The House with the Stained Glass Windows (1934) to Memoirs of a Private Man (2003).

Winston Groom

24 books• 2 series

Forrest Gump (1986) is the best known novel by Winston Groom (1943–2020), an American author. The book became a 1990s film directed by Robert Zemeckis with Tom Hanks, and Groom followed it with the sequel Gump & Co. in 1995. Groom also wrote 15 nonfiction books, five of them biographies, on topics including the Civil War. El Paso (2016) was his final novel, and The Patriots (2020) is the last of 24 catalogued books.

Winter Morgan writes short adventure novels for children set inside video games, chiefly Minecraft. Series include Unofficial Minecrafter's Adventure, Unofficial Minecrafters Academy, Unofficial Minecrafter Mysteries, Minecraft League of Griefers Adventure, Lost Minecraft Journals and Tales of a Terrarian Warrior. The 45 titles catalogued run from The Quest for the Diamond Sword (2014) to The Big Win (2021) at a median of 112 pages, and the list has been dormant since.

Winter Renshaw writes contemporary romance, with 32 books in the catalogue from 2015 to 2026. Dark Paradise (2015) is listed first, and Arrogant Playboy (2015) and Never Kiss a Stranger (2015) appeared the same year. Renshaw's series are Rixton Falls, Amato Brothers, P.S. and Hearted. Filthy (2016), Priceless (2016) and Royal (2016) are among the titles, and Love Grows Wild (2026) is the newest.

Winter Travers has 130 books catalogued from 2015 to 2026, and Fallen Fool is due in 2027. Loving Lo, Battling Troy, Finding Cyn and Gravel's Road are 2015 titles, and Grave Sin (2026) is the newest. Series include Fallen Lords MC, Devil's Knights, Devil's Knights 2nd Generation, Royal Bastards MC: Sacramento, CA, Iron Fiends, Kings of Vengeance MC, Nitro Crew and Banachi Family. Geri Glenn, Avelyn Paige and G.M. Scherbert each share credits on 2 books.

Wole Soyinka

30 books• 1 series

Wole Soyinka - Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, born 13 July 1934 - is a Nigerian writer, playwright and poet. His output runs to three novels, ten short story collections, seven poetry collections, twenty-five plays and five memoirs, plus two translated works and many articles for newspapers and periodicals. The 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature went to Soyinka for a wide cultural perspective and poetic overtones in fashioning the drama of existence. Born into an Anglican Yoruba family in Ake, Abeokuta, he took a preparatory education at Government College, Ibadan, and went on to University College Ibadan. The catalogue lists 30 titles from A Dance of the Forests (1963) to Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth (2021).

Wole Talabi is indexed under speculative fiction, Afrofuturism and science fiction anthologies, with 8 titles listed under the name between 2018 and 2026. AfroSFv3 (2018) is an anthology whose listing also credits Biram Mboob, T.L. Huchu, Dilman Dila, Mame Bougouma Diene, Masimba Musodza, Ivor W. Hartmann and Cristy Zinn with one book each. Incomplete Solutions (2019), A Dream of Electric Mothers (2022), Saturday's Song (2023), Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon (2023) and Convergence Problems (2024) follow. The Fist of Memory carries a 2026 date.

Wolf Haas

11 books• 1 series

Wolf Haas, born on 14 December 1960, is an Austrian writer of crime fiction. Haas is most widely known for the novels about detective Simon Brenner, and four of them have been adapted as films. The prizes Haas has won include the Deutscher Krimipreis, the German crime fiction prize. The catalogue lists 11 books from Resurrection / Auferstehung der Toten (1996) to Short Circuit (2026), with The Bone Man / Der Knochenmann (1997), Silentium! (1999), Brenner and God (2009) and Brennerova (2014) among them. Subject headings add Austria, ex-police officers, ambulance drivers, hard-boiled and experimental fiction.

Wolfe Locke writes fantasy built around dungeons, summoning and progression, with farming and settlement-building as a recurring frame: Sowing Season, Seneca Farm, Sword to Ploughshare and Mana Harvest all point that way. The Genesis Game, Shatterfist, Regressor and Summoner of Beckham Estate are further series. Locke has 87 books catalogued between 2020 and 2026, from Essense Weaver (2020) to Black Powder Republic (2026), with Farming is Just a Holiday For An Archmage scheduled for 2027.

Westerns make up the 21 books by Wyatt Cochrane, published between 2016 and 2026. Cochrane writes three series: Marshall Family Western, Carson Kettle United States Marshal and Jubal Cain Western. War Wounds (2016) is the first title, followed by Family Feud (2017) and Cheyenne Showdown (2018). No Quarter Given (2026) is the newest.