Authors, Poets & Novelists Posters & Prints: "W - Z", pg 11/11
at The Creative Process

Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford
b. 9-24-1717; England
d. 3-2-1797

Horace Walpole was a writer, an innovator in architecture, and politician. He is known for his wittiness, having coined the term "serendipity" from the Persian fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip (Serendip is the Persian name for Sri Lanka), and referring to Mary Wollstonecraft as "a hyena in petticoats".

Izaak Walton the Writer and Angler "Pater Piscatorum" or "Father of Fishers" with His Fishing Rod
b. 8-9-1593; England
d. 12-15-1682

The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation is a popular classic treatise on fishing that goes beyond techniques, embracing a life that values serenity and appreciation for creation.

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• aquatic posters

Orson Welles
b. 5-6-1915; Wisconsin
d. 10-10-1985

Orson Welles was an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, as well as an actor, director, and journalist.

• This is Orson Welles

Herbert George Wells
b. 9-21-1866; England
d. 8-13-1946

• The Invisible Man book cover
• The Complete Short Stories of H.G. Wells

Rebecca West / TIME Cover: December 08, 1947
TIME Magazine
b. 12-21-1892; England
d. 3-15-1983

• Black Lamb and Grey Falcon:
A Journey Through Yugoslavia; Rebecca West
(Rebecca West and H. G. Wells had a ten year affair).

Edith Wharton, National Archives
b. 1-24-1862; NY
d. 8-11-1937

• Edith Wharton : Novels : The House of Mirth / The Reef / The Custom of the Country / The Age of Innocence
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Portrait of Phillis Wheatley (c.1753-84), Giclee Print
b. c. 1753; Senegal
d. 12-5-1784; Boston(?)

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• The Poems of Phillis Wheatley
• Black History posters

William Allen White / TIME Cover: October 6, 1924
TIME Magazine
b. 2-10-1868; Emporia, KS
d. 1-20-1944

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• The Autobiography of William Allen White

Oscar Wilde, Irish Writer and Playwright
b. 10-16-1854; Ireland
d. 11-30-1900

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• Motivational quote poster- “Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”
Oscar Wilde
• The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Stories, Plays, Poems, Essays
• The Importance of Being Earnest book cover poster
• Oscar Wilde Quotes Poster @ 123 Posters
• Oscar Wilde in Irish Writers Composite poster

Thornton Wilder / TIME Cover: January 12, 1953
b. 4-17-1897; Wisconsin
d. 12-7-1975; CT

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• Our Town: A Play in Three Acts by Thornton Wilder
• Thornton Wilder Society

Tennessee Williams / TIME Cover: March 9, 1962
b. 3-26-1911; Mississippi
d. 2-25-1983

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• Streecar Named Desire book cover poster
• A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
• Tennessee Williams Bio

Thomas Wolfe, National Archives Print
b. 10-3-1900; North Carolina
d. 9-15-1938

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• Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe

Tom Wolfe / TIME Cover: November 02, 1998, TIME Magazine Print
b. 3-2-1931; Richmond, VA

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• The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe

Virginia Woolf, English Novelist, Giclee Print
b. 1-25-1882; London
d. 3-28-1941

• The Virginia Woolf Reader
• Women Writers posters
• Mrs. Dalloway book cover poster

William Wordsworth
b. 4-7-1770; England
d. 4-23-1850

Romantic poet William Wordsworth was England's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850. He, along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, were known as the Lake Poets, and began the Romantic literature movement in England.

I Wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze....

• William Wordsworth - The Major Works : including The Prelude

Sir Thomas Wyatt, poet
b. 1503; England
d. 10-6-1542

Wyatt and Henry Howard are known as the "Fathers of the English Sonnet".

• Selected Poems: Sir Thomas Wyatt

John Wycliffe
b. c. 1320; England
d. 12-31-1384

John Wycliffe was a theologian who founded the Lollard movement, a precursor to the Protestant Reformation. Wycliffe is credited as the instigator of the first complete translation of the Bible into English and his work of making the sacred available to the common man was part of the paradigm of the Peasant's Revolt of 1381.

• The English Works of Wyclif Hitherto Unprinted

William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and dramatist, was one of the foremost literary figures of the 20th century and awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature. He had life-long interest in mysticism that were further fueled by the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg. He was infatuated with Maud Gonne, attended the salons of Mallarme in Paris, and served as an Irish senator.

b. 6-13-1865; Ireland
d. 1-28-1939

• The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition : A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose
• Irish Writers composite poster

Emile Zola - Writers Who Changed the World Wall Poster
b. 4-2-1840; France
d. 9-29-1902

Emile Zola, 19th Century French novelist in the literary school of naturalism, wrote an open letter accusing the French government of anti-semitism in the wrongful imprisonment of Alfred Dreyfus.

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