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Ellen Bryant Voigt

Photograph of American writer William T. Vollmann.

William T. Vollmann

Colorized engraving of Voltaire wearing a wig.

Voltaire

(1694 - 1778)

Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff

(1774 - 1852)

John von Neumann

(1903 - 1957)

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

(1836 - 1935)

Peter von Ziegesar.

Peter von Ziegesar

Kurt Vonnegut

(1922 - 2007)

Serge Voronoff

(c. 1866 - 1951)

Rudolf Vrba

(1924 - 2006)

Diana Vreeland

(1903 - 1989)

German composer Richard Wagner.

Richard Wagner

(1813 - 1883)

Loudon Wainwright Jr.

(1924 - 1988)

Photograph of West Indian poet and playwright Derek Walcott.

Derek Walcott

(1930 - 2017)

Alice Walker

photograph of David Foster Wallace speaking at a podium

David Foster Wallace

(1962 - 2008)

Photograph of British humanist, naturalist, and critic Alfred Russel Wallace.

Alfred Russel Wallace

(1823 - 1913)

David Wallace-Wells

Horace Walpole

(1717 - 1797)

Black-and-white photograph of a young man wearing a coat and tie

Robert Walser

(1878 - 1956)

Izaak Walton

(1593 - 1683)

Xiaowei Wang

Wang Gai

(c. 1650 - c. 1710)

Wang Wei

(701 - 761)