Authors & Illustrators
- Sarah Wade
- Warren Wagar
- Drue Wagner
- Max Wainewright
- Scott Wakefield
- Tillie Walden
- Kasia Walentynowicz
- Cheryl Walker
- David Walker
- Dugald Stewart Walker
- Rob Walker
- Rory Walker
- Chad Wallace
- Laurie Wallmark
- Stephen Walsh
- Helen Walter
- Paul Andrew Wandless
- Edward Ward
- Rachel Ward
- Zoe Waring
- Ruby Warrington
- Ellen Warwick
- Booker Washington
- Booker T. Washington
- Chip Wass
- Margarett Waterbury
- Alice Waters
- James C. Watkins
- Lala Watkins
- Renée Watson
- Joan Watters
- Wallace D. Wattles
- Flora Waycott
- Kara Weaver
- Jeffrey Webb
- Urs Weber
- Caroline Webster
- Przemystaw Wechterowicz
- Kent Weeks
- Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
- Aileen Weintraub
- Robyn Weintraub
- Brian Weiser
- Scott Weiss
- H. G. Wells
- Kerri Wessel
- Marcie Wessels
- Susan Westmoreland
- Rachel Wetzsteon
- Edith Wharton
- Tara Nicole Whitaker
- Teagan White
- Walt Whitman
- James Whittaker
- Magnus Widell
- Jim Widess
- Filippa Widlund
- Matt Wiegle
- Elie Wiesel
- Andrew Wiest
- Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Patti Wigington
- Katie Wignall
- Oscar Wilde
- Novalee Wilder
- Judy Wilford
- Mo Willems
- Gerrard Williams
- Sam Williams
- Vanessa Williams
- Gordon Williamson
- James A Willis
- Shirley Willis
- Pauline Wills
- Craig Willse
- Edwin Graves Wilson
- Maggie Wilson
- Sean Michael Wilson
- Spencer Wilson
- Ken Wilson-Max
- Sarah Wimperis
- Jim Winchester
- Shane Windham
- Kate Winslow
- Eleanor Winters
- John "Lofty" Wiseman
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Wolf-Heidegger
- Michael Wolraich
- Fred Wolter