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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

The Reader’s Dictionary of Authors

S. Warner to Zwingli

Susan Warner (1819–1885)
William Warner (1558?–1609)
Gouverneur Kemble Warren (1830–1882)
Mercy Otis Warren (1728–1814)
Samuel Warren (1807–1877)
William Fairfield Warren (1833–1929)
Edward Augustus Warriner (1829–1908)
Joseph Warton (1722–1800)
Thomas Warton (1728–1790)
Charles Ames Washburn (1822–1889)
Elihu Benjamin Washburne (1816–1887)
Booker T. Washington (1856–1915)
George Washington (1732–1799)
Edmund Wasilewski (1814–1846)
Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski (1822–1896)
David Atwood Wasson (1823–1887)
Clara Erskine Clement Waters (1834–1916)
Henry Clay Watson (1831–1869)
John Watson (Ian Maclaren) (1850–1907)
John Whitaker Watson (1824–1890)
Richard Watson (1781–1833)
Thomas Watson (1555–1592)
William Watson (1858–1935)
Wilhelm Wattenbach (1819–1897)
Henry Watterson (1840–1921)
Alaric Alexander Watts (1797–1864)
Isaac Watts (1674–1748)
Mary Stanbery Watts (1868–1958)
Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832–1914)
Edwin Waugh (1817–1890)
Francis Wayland (1796–1865)
Charles Henry Webb (1834–1905)
James Watson Webb (1802–1884)
Sidney Webb (1859–1947)
Karl Julius Weber (1767–1832)
Max Maria von Weber (1822–1881)
Albert Falvey Webster (1848–1876)
Daniel Webster (1782–1852)
Henry Kitchell Webster (1875–1932)
John Webster (c. 1580–1634)
Augusta Webster (1837–1894)
Noah Webster (1758–1843)
Georg Rudolf Weckherlin (1584–1653)
James Wedderburn (c. 1495–1553)
Frank Wedekind (1864–1918)
Thurlow Weed (1797–1882)
Robert Kelley Weeks (1840–1876)
Mason Locke Weems (1759–1825)
Franz Xaver von Wegele (1823–1897)
Feodor von Wehl (1821–1890)
Gustav Weil (1808–1889)
Josef Weilen (1828–1889)
Hermann Weingarten (1834–1892)
Karl Weinhold (1823–1901)
Arthur Weir (1864–1902)
Harrison Weir (1824–1906)
James Weir (1821–1906)
Christian Weise (1642–1708)
August Weismann (1834–1914)
John Weiss (1818–1879)
Christian Felix Weisse (1726–1804)
Christian Hermann Weisse (1801–1866)
Amelia B. Welby (1819–1852)
Philip Henry Welch (1849–1889)
Sarah Welch (1851–1914?)
Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1784–1868)
Johan Sebastian Cammermeyer Welhaven (1807–1873)
James Edward Cowell Welldon (1854–1937)
Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)
Charles Jeremiah Wells (1800–1879)
David Ames Wells (1828–1898)
David Dwight Wells (1868–1900)
H. G. Wells (1866–1946)
Kate Gannett Wells (1838–1911)
Francis Courtney Wemyss (1797–1859)
Barrett Wendell (1855–1921)
Henrik Arnold Wergeland (1808–1845)
Franz von Werner (1836–1881)
Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias Werner (1768–1823)
Charles Wesley (1707–1788)
John Wesley (1703–1791)
Samuel Wesley (1662–1735)
Samuel Wesley the Younger (1690/1–1739)
Lily Foster Wesselhoeft (1840–1919)
Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901)
Edward Noyes Westcott (1847–1898)
Lorenz von Westenrieder (1748–1829)
Ethelwyn Wetherald (1857–1940)
Stanley John Weyman (1855–1928)
Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (1845–1928)
Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
Thomas Wharton (1648–1715)
Thomas Wharton (1859–1896)
Richard Whately (1787–1863)
Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838–1917)
Henry Wheaton (1785–1848)
Andrew Carpenter Wheeler (1835–1903)
Benjamin Ide Wheeler (1854–1927)
Crosby Howard Wheeler (1823–1896)
William Adolphus Wheeler (1833–1874)
John Wheelwright (1592/4–1679)
William Whewell (1794–1866)
Benjamin Whichcote (1609–1683)
Edwin Percy Whipple (1819–1886)
Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822–1901)
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903)
Alexander Whitaker (1585–1617)
Andrew Dickson White (1832–1918)
Eliza Orne White (1856–1947)
Gilbert White (1720–1793)
Greenough White (1863–1901)
Henry Alexander White (1861–1926)
Horace White (1834–1916)
John Blake White (1781–1859)
Joseph Blanco White (1775–1841)
Percy White (1852–1938)
Richard Grant White (1822–1885)
Stewart Edward White (1873–1946)
William Allen White (1868–1944)
George Whitefield (1714–1770)
Charles Whitehead (1804–1862)
William Whitehead (1715–1785)
Richard Whiteing (1840–1928)
Henry Whiting (1788–1851)
Lilian Whiting (b. 1859)
Brand Whitlock (1869–1934)
Sarah Helen Power Whitman (1803–1878)
Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
Adeline Dutton Train Whitney (1824–1906)
William Dwight Whitney (1827–1894)
Thomas Whittemore (1800–1861)
Elizabeth Hussey Whittier (1815–1864)
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)
Edward Whymper (1840–1911)
George John Whyte-Melville (1821–1878)
Ernst Wichert (1831–1902)
Julius von Wickede (1819–1896)
Philip Henry Wicksteed (1844–1927)
Joseph Viktor Widmann (1842–1911)
Prince Maximilian von Wied (1782–1867)
Christoph Martin Wieland (1733–1813)
Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen (1792–1836)
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1856–1923)
Michael Wigglesworth (1631–1705)
Orlando Williams Wight (1824–1888)
Samuel Wilberforce (1805–1873)
William Wilberforce (1759–1833)
Charles Edwin Wilbour (1833–1896)
Adolf Wilbrandt (1837–1911)
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919)
Marrion Wilcox (1858–1926)
Lady Wilde (1826–1896)
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
Richard Henry Wilde (1789–1847)
Ernst von Wildenbruch (1845–1909)
Ottilie Wildermuth (1817–1877)
Wilhelmine von Bayreuth (1709–1758)
Charles Wilkes (1798–1877)
George Wilkes (1817–1885)
William Wilkie (1721–1772)
Bishop John Wilkins (1614–1672)
Spenser Wilkinson (1853–1937)
Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1797–1875)
William Cleaver Wilkinson (1833–1920)
Ashton Rollins Willard (1858–1918)
Emma Hart Willard (1787–1870)
Frances Elizabeth Willard (1839–1898)
William of Malmesbury (c. 1090–c. 1143)
William of Ockham (c. 1285–c. 1349)
William of Tyre (c. 1130–c. 1190)
Alfred Mason Williams (1840–1896)
Anna Bolles Williams (b. 1840)
Catharine R. Williams (1790–1872)
Francis Howard Williams (1844–1922)
George Forrester Williams (1837–1920)
Isaac Williams (1802–1865)
Jesse Lynch Williams (1871–1929)
John Williams (1796–1839)
Roger Williams (1604?–1683)
Samuel Wells Williams (1812–1884)
Julia May Williamson (1859–1909)
Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867)
Eliza Mary Willoughby, Baroness Middleton (d. 1922)
William Gorman Wills (1828–1891)
William Robert Wills (1837–1896)
Lambert A. Wilmer (1805?–1863)
Zavarr Wilmshurst (1824–1887)
Alexander Wilson (1766–1813)
Augusta Jane Wilson (1835–1909)
Daniel Wilson (1816–1892)
Francis Wilson (1854–1935)
Henry Wilson (1812–1875)
Henry Bristow Wilson (1803–1888)
Horace Hayman Wilson (1786–1860)
James Harrison Wilson (1837–1925)
John Wilson (Christopher North) (1785–1854)
John Mackay Wilson (1804–1835)
Sir Robert Thomas Wilson (1777–1849)
William Wilson (1801–1860)
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
Alexander Winchell (1824–1891)
Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchelsea (1661–1720)
Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768)
Enoch Cobb Wines (1806–1879)
Edward Winslow (1595–1655)
Helen Maria Winslow (1851–1938)
Miron Winslow (1789–1864)
William Copley Winslow (1840–1917)
Justin Winsor (1831–1897)
William Winter (1836–1917)
Christian Winther (1796–1876)
John Winthrop (1588–1649)
Theodore Winthrop (1828–1861)
William Wirt (1772–1834)
Daniel Wise (1813–1898)
Henry Augustus Wise (1819–1869)
Isaac Mayer Wise (1819–1900)
Nicholas Patrick Wiseman (1802–1865)
Annis Lee Wister (1830–1908)
Owen Wister (1860–1938)
George Wither (1588–1667)
John Witherspoon (1723–1794)
Stefan Witwicki (1801–1847)
John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) (1738–1819)
Friedrich August Wolf (1759–1824)
Charles Wolfe (1791–1823)
Theodore Frelinghuysen Wolfe (1847–1915)
Elisabeth Bekker Wolff (1738–1804)
Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff (1799–1851)
Wolfram von Eschenbach (c. 1170–c. 1220)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)
Ernst von Wolzogen (1855–1934)
Karoline von Wolzogen (1763–1847)
Anthony Wood (1632–1695)
Ellen Wood (1814–1887)
George Wood (1799–1870)
Henry Wood (1834–1909)
John George Wood (1827–1889)
John Seymour Wood (1853–1934)
Sarah Sayward Barrell Keating Wood (1759–1855)
William Wood (1864–1947)
George Edward Woodberry (1855–1930)
Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee (1747–1813)
James Woodrow (1828–1907)
Kate Tannatt Woods (1838–1910)
Katherine Pearson Woods (1853–1923)
Margaret L. Woods (1856–1945)
Verna Woods (1864–1903)
Samuel Woodworth (1784–1842)
Celia Parker Woolley (1848–1918)
John Woolman (1720–1772)
Thomas Woolner (1825–1892)
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge) (1835–1905)
Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1801–1889)
Abba Louisa Goold Woolson (1838–1921)
Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894)
Joseph Emerson Worcester (1784–1865)
William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
Henry Clay Work (1832–1884)
Fanny Bullock Workman (1859–1925)
Katherine Prescott Wormeley (1830–1908)
Ralph Nicholson Wornum (1812–1877)
Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae (1821–1885)
Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)
William Wotton (1666–1727)
Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall (1751–1831)
Carroll Davidson Wright (1840–1909)
Elizur Wright (1804–1885)
George Frederick Wright (1838–1921)
Harold Bell Wright (1872–1944)
Henrietta Christian Wright (1854–1899)
Julia McNair Wright (1840–1903)
Mabel Osgood Wright (1859–1934)
Mary Tappan Wright (1851–1916)
Thomas Wright (1810–1877)
William Aldis Wright (1831–1914)
William Burnet Wright (1838–1924)
Wilhelm Max Wundt (1832–1920)
Heinrich Wuttke (1818–1876)
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542)
William Wycherley (1640–1716)
Walter Augustus Wyckoff (1865–1908)
John Wycliffe (c. 1324–1384)
Johann Rudolf Wyss (1782–1830)
Erasmus Xacca (c. 1643–c. 1708)
Xanthos (fl. c. 650 B.C.?)
Xanthus of Lydia (Sixth Century B.C.)
Saint Francis Xavier (1506–1552)
Jerome Xavier (Seventeenth Century)
Xenarchus (fl. 350–330 B.C.)
Xenocles (b. c. Fourth Century B.C.)
Xenocrates (396–314 B.C.)
Xenophanes (Sixth Century B.C.)
Xenophon (c. 430–c. 350 B.C.)
Xenophon of Ephesus (Second Century?)
Stephanos Theodōros Xenos (1821–1894)
Francisco de Xerez (Sixteenth Century)
Diego Ximénez de Encisco (Sixteenth Century)
Enrico Emilio Ximenes (1857–1882)
Jacques Ximenes (Sixteenth Century)
Pieter Ximenès (1514–1595)
Francisco Ximénez de Cisneros (1436?–1517)
Augustin-Louis de Ximénez (1728–1817)
Vicente Ximeno (1691–1764)
Gaspar Xuárez (1731–1804)
Josef von Xylander (1794–1854)
Alexander Yakhontov (b. 1820)
Thomas Yalden (1670–1736)
José Yanguas y Miranda (d. c. 1860)
Jean Yanoski (1813–1851)
Edward Yardley, Jr.
William Yarrell (1784–1856)
Edmund Yates (1831–1894)
Nikolai Yazykov (1803–1847)
Ann Yearsley (c. 1756–1806)
William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
Thérèse Yelverton, Viscountess Avonmore (1832?–1881)
Antonio de Yepez (d. 1621)
Diego de Yepez (1559–1613)
Jean Albert Ymbert (1786–1846)
Charles Duke Yonge (1812–1891)
Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823–1901)
William Youatt (1776–1847)
Edward Livingston Youmans (1821–1887)
William Jay Youmans (1838–1901)
Arthur Young (1741–1820)
Edward Young (1681–1765)
John Young (1805–1881)
John Russell Young (1841–1899)
Thomas Postans Young
Sir William Young (1749–1815)
Amadeus Ypey (1760–1831)
Charles Yriarte (1832–1898)
Tomás de Iriarte (1750–1791)
Victor Frédéric Alexandre Ysabeau (1793–1873)
Sir Henry Yule (1820–1889)
Abu Amru Yusuf (976–1070)
Melchior Yvan (1803–1873)
Jacques Yver (1520–1572)
Eugène Yvert (1794–1878)
Pierre Yves d’Évreux (c. 1577–c. 1620)
Claude Yvon (1714–1791)
Eugen Zabel (1851–1924)
Johann Christoph Zabensing (b. 1747)
Franciszek Zabłocki (1754–1821)
Francesco Antonio Zaccaria (1714–1795)
Heinrich Albert Zachariä (1806–1875)
Justus Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariä (1726–1777)
Karl Eduard Zachariä von Lingenthal (1812–1894)
Karl Salomo Zachariä von Lingenthal (1769–1843)
Ernst Julius August Zacher (1816–1887)
Mikhail Zagoskin (1789–1852)
Zahir
Wilhelm Johann Karl Zahn (1800–1871)
Theodor Zahn (1838–1933)
Józef Bohdan Zaleski (1802–1886)
Casimir Zalewski (b. 1848)
Geōrgios Zalokōstas (1805–1858)
Andrzej Chryzostom Załuski (1650–1711)
John Zambelios (1787–1856)
Andrea Zambelli (1794–1862)
Antonio de Zamora (c. 1660–1728?)
Giacomo Zanella (1820–1888)
Bernardino Zanetti (1690–1762)
Israel Zangwill (1864–1926)
Stiepan Zannowich (1751–1786)
Jean Pierre Zanotti (1674–1767)
Georg Wilhelm Zapf (1747–1810)
Giovanni Battista Zappi (b. 1540)
Giovanni Battista Felice Zappi (1667–1710)
Agustín de Zárate (1514?–1585?)
Friedrich Zarncke (1825–1891)
André Zbylitowski (1732–1813)
Pierre Zbylitowski (1684–1757)
Joseph Christian Freiherr von Zedlitz (1790–1862)
Adolf Zeising (1810–1876)
Heinrich Baron von Zeissberg (1839–1899)
Christian Heinrich Zeller (1797–1860)
Eduard Zeller (1814–1908)
Jules Sylvain Zeller (1819–1900)
Apostolo Zeno (1668–1750)
Zeno of Elea (Fifth Century B.C.)
Zeno the Stoic (c. 350–c. 264 B.C.)
Rocco de Zerbi (1843–1893)
Christian Friedrich Zernitz (1717–1744)
Philipp von Zesen (1619–1689)
Johann Kaspar Zeuss (1806–1856)
Jacob van Zevecote (1604–1646)
Julius Zeyer (1841–1901)
Gerhard von Zezschwitz (1825–1886)
Vasily Zhukovsky (1783–1852)
Karl Ziegler (1812–1877)
Friedrich Wilhelm Ziegler (1759–1827)
Theobald Ziegler (1846–1918)
Heinrich Anshelm von Ziegler und Kliphausen (1663–1696)
Ernst Ziel (1841–1921)
Felix Zielinski (1732–1805)
Johann Georg Zimmermann (1728–1795)
Karl Zimmermann (1803–1877)
Wilhelm Zimmermann (1807–1878)
Helen Zimmern (1846–1934)
Szymon Zimorowic (1608/9–1629)
Foster Barham Zincke (1817–1893)
Ignaz Vincenz Zingerle (1825–1892)
Pius Zingerle (1801–1881)
Johann Wilhelm Zinkeisen (1803–1863)
Julius Wilhelm Zincgref (1591–1635)
Emil Zittel (1831–1899)
Ziver Pasha (1793–1862)
Émile Zola (1840–1902)
Edmund von Zoller (1822–1902)
Theophil Zolling (1849–1901)
Joannes Zonaras (Twelfth Century)
Melchiore Zoppio (c. 1544–1634)
Zoroaster (Sixth Century B.C.)
José Zorrilla y Moral (1817–1893)
Zosimus (Late Fifth Century)
Thomas Zouch (1737–1815)
Richard Zouche (c. 1590–1661)
Count Miklós Zrinyi (1620–1664)
Heinrich Zschokke (1771–1848)
August Wilhelm Zumpt (1815–1877)
Karl Gottlob Zumpt (1792–1849)
Leopold Zunz (1794–1886)
Julius Zupitza (1844–1895)
Jerónimo Zurita (1512–1580)
Philip Zweers (d. 1774)
Theodor Zwinger the Elder (1533–1588)
Ulrich Zwingli (1484–1531)