Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives (173 page)

Wenders, Wim
738

Wentworth, Hunter
778

Wesker, Arnold
682

West, Eileen (née McKenney)
447

West, James L., III
616

West, Nathanael (born Nathan

Weinstein)
156
,
346
,
347
,
381
,
445
–7
,
556

West, Rebecca
263
,
264
,
316

Westbrook, Harriet
72

Weyman, Stanley
298

Wharton, Edith Newbold (née Jones)
251
–3
,
668

Wharton, Edward Robbins (‘Teddy’)
252

Wheatley, Anthony
406

Wheatley, Dennis Yates
405
–8

Wheatley, Joan
406

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill
183
,
189
,
349

White, Connor Bantry
572
–3

White, Michael
562
,
563

White, Patrick Victor Martindale
519
–22
,
738

White, Ruth
520

White, Victor
519
–20,
521

Whitman, Walt
188
–9

Whittington Griffin, J.
483

Wilde, Oscar
188
,
205
,
221
,
228
,
229
,
231
,
244
–5,
249
,
259
,
265
,
277
,
292
,
294
,
310
,
318
,
349
,
442
,
445
,
450
,
473
,
591
,
669

Wilder, Billy
346
,
374
,
507
,
766

Wilhelm II, Kaiser
336

Wilkie, Sir David
145

Willans, Geoffrey
755

Willeford, Charles Ray
560
–61

Willeford, Glenn
182

William III, King
25

Williams, Charles
240

Williams, Harold
254

Williams, P.
377

Williams, Tennessee
556

Williams, William Carlos
561

Williamson, Henry Williams
389
–92

Willis, N. P.
103

Wilson, A. N.
665
,
666

Wilson, Andrew
533
,
534
,
580

Wilson, Angus
668
,
779

Wilson, Colin
705

Wilson, Edmund
413
,
425
,
445

Wilson, Francis
154

Wilson, Harold, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx
470

Wilson, Willie
154
,
155

Wilson, Woodrow
256
,
257
,
356

Winfrey, Oprah
426
,
655
,
656
,
797

Wingfield, Lewis
183
–4

Winterson, Jeanette
729

Wister, Mary (née Channing)
243

Wister, Owen
241
–3
,
279
,
289

Wittgenstein, Ludwig
412
,
591
,
772

Wodehouse, P. G.
365
,
473
,
562
,
706
,
787
,
788

Wolfe, Thomas
530
,
653

Wolfe, Tom
686

Wolff, R.
168

Wollstonecraft, Fanny
71

Wollstonecraft, Mary
71
,
72

Wood, C. W.
112

Wood, Henry
111
–12,
112

Wood, Mrs Henry (Ellen (née Price))
111
–12

Wood, Thelma Ellen
367
,
368

Woodress, J.
274

Woolf, Leonard
324
,
326

Woolf, Virginia (Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen))
2
,
5
,
6
,
38
,
140
,
265
,
266
,
269
,
311
,
323
–6
,
350
,
408
,
409
,
504

Wordsworth, William
33
,
47
,
65
,
78
,
127
,
705

Worthen, J.
338

Worthington, John Hugh
77

Wortley Montagu, Lady Mary
17

Wouk, Betty (née Brown)
529

Wouk, Herman
529
–31

Wren, P. C.
461

Wright, Austin McGiffert
590
–93

Wright, Fanny
62
–3

Wright, Frank Lloyd
467

Wright, Richard
601
–2

Wycherley, William
15

Wyeth, N. C.
289

Wyler, William
620
,
767

Wylie, Andrew
743

Wyndham, John
604
,
770

Y

Yardley, Jonathan
430
–31

Yates, Richard
514
,
515
,
622
–5

Yates, Sheila
624

Yeats, W. B.
210
,
666

Yerkes, Charles T.
286
,
287

Yonge, Charlotte
141
–3

Yorke, Adelaide (née Biddulph)
459

Yorke, Vincent
458
,
459

Young, Edward
15

Young, G. M.
104

Young, Graham
363

Young, Lester
656

Young, Philip
87
,
88

Youngman Carter, Philip (‘Pip’)
448
,
449

Z

Zangwill, Edith (née Ayrton)
259

Zangwill, Israel
257
–9

Zarobila, Charles
141

Zellweger, Renée
482

Zeta-Jones, Catherine
480

Zhivkov, Todor
751
,
752

Zola, Emile
281
,
366