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Nancy Willard
Nancy Willard was born on June 26, 1936, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She was educated at the University..
Lew Welch
Lew Welch Born August 16, 1926 Phoenix, Arizona. Died May, 1971 Nevada City, California.
The leas..
Diane Wakoski
Diane Wakoski (born 1937) is an American poet who is associated with the "deep image" poets and the..
Annie Louisa Walker
A British-born novelist, children’s playwright, and poet, educated in Point Levy, Quebec, and Sarnia..
James Whitcomb Riley
James Whitcomb Riley was born on October 7, 1849 in Greenfield, Indiana, surrounded by farmland and..
Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott was born in 1930 in the town of Castries in Saint Lucia, one of the Windward Islands i..
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier was born on December 17, 1807 in the southwest Parlor of the Whittier Homest..
Judith Wright
Judith Wright was a prolific Australian poet, critic, and short-story writer, who published more tha..
Alice Walker
Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth and last child of Willie..
Walt Whitman
WALT WHITMAN was born in Westhills, Long Island, May 31, 1819, in a farm-house overlooking the sea...
Christopher Wiseman
Christopher Wiseman was born in Hull, England, just before the second World War, the outbreak of whi..
Natalie Wilson
Natalie Wilson grew up in Timmins, Ontario, but moved to North Bay, Ontario while in high school. Sh..
Tom Wayman
TOM WAYMAN was born in 1945 in Hawkesbury, Ontario, a pulp mill town on the Ottawa River. When he wa..
David Waltner-Toews
David Waltner-Toews is a poet, essayist, fiction-writer, veterinarian, epidemiologist, husband, and..
Fred Wah
Fred Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan in 1939, but he grew up in the West Kootenay region..
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