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Letter: W

William Weaver

(1923-2013) Translator. William Weaver was probably born in Washington, District of Columbia, and died in Rhinebeck, New York.

Carolyn Wells

(1862-1942) Author, poet. Carolyn Wells was born in Rahway, New Jersey, and died in Manhattan, New York.

Kenneth Wilson

(1936-2013) Author. Kenneth Wilson was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, and died in Saco, Maine. He was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Bernard Waber

(1921-2013) Author. Bernard Waber was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died in Baldwin, New York. He moved to New York in the mid-1950s where he worked for Life magazine for twenty years.

Paul Williams

(1948-2013) Critic, writer, journalist. Paul Williams was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died in Encinitas, California.

Ruth Waterbury

(1896-1982) Writer. Ruth Waterbury was born in New York, and died in Newbury Park, California. She was an editor of Photoplay and Silver Screen magazines. She had been a writer for The New York Daily News, The Los Angeles Herald, and Coronet Magazine.

Diane Wolkstein

(1942-2013) Author. Diane Wolkstein was born in Newark, New Jersey, and died in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. She was a children’s author and folklorist and at one time she served as New York City’s official storyteller. She taught at New York University.