List of LGBT Writers - W

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• Alice Walker (b. 1944), African American author, wrote The Color Purple (1982)
• Wynn Wagner (b. 1951), wrote Influential (2009), Vamp Camp trilogy (2011+), A Pilgrim's Guide to the Old Catholic Church (2009)
• Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978), English author
• Patricia Nell Warren (b. 1936), American author, wrote The Front Runner (1974)
• May Water (1965–Present)Erotic Romance Author/Siren Publishing. Wrote "The Seaside Surrender series" An erotic romance series chronicling the lives of four early 1900s Bisexual Boston professionals
• Sarah Waters (b. 1966), British novelist, wrote Tipping the Velvet (1998); Affinity (1999) winner of the 2000 Ferro-Grumley lesbian fiction award; The Night Watch (2006)
• Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966), English author, wrote Brideshead Revisited (1945)
• Denton Welch (1915–1948), English author
• Edmund White (b. 1940), American author, wrote A Boy's Own Story (1983)
• Patrick White (1912–1990), Australian author, wrote Flaws in the Glass (1981)
• Walt Whitman (1819–1892), American poet, wrote Leaves of Grass (1855)
• Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Anglo-Irish writer, wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
• Thornton Wilder (1897–1975), American playwright and novelist, author of Our Town (1938)
• Jonathan Williams (1929–2008), American poet
• Tennessee Williams (1911–1983), American author, wrote A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
• William Carlos Williams (1883–1963), American poet
• Angus Wilson (1913–1991), English author, wrote Hemlock and After (1952)
• Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768), German author
• Donald Windham (b. 1920), American author
• Christa Winsloe (1888–1944), German author, wrote Yesterday and Today (transformed into film, Mädchen in Uniform, 1931)
• Jeanette Winterson (b. 1959), wrote Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)
• Monique Wittig (1935–2003), French author and philosopher, wrote Le Corps Lesbien (The Lesbian Body, 1973)
• Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), English author, wrote Orlando: A Biography (1928)