| W B Yeats
William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin on 13 June 1865. He studied to become a painter, like his father, but abandoned that profession in 1886 in favour | |  |
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W E Bowman
W. E. Bowman was a civil engineer who spent his free time hill-walking, painting and writing (unpublished) books on the Theory of Relativity. He was married | |  |
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| W E Johns
Captain W. E. Johns was born in Hertfordshire in 1893. He flew with the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War and made a daring escape from a German | |  |
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W G Sebald
W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, in the Bavarian Alps, in 1944. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. | |  |
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| W Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham was one of the twentieth century’s most popular novelists as well as a celebrated playwright, critic, and short story writer. He was | |  |
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Waddell, Martin
Martin Waddell is one of the finest contemporary children's book writers. Winner of the Smarties Book Prize – for Farmer Duck and Can't You | |  |
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| Waddell, Sid
Sid Waddell, 'The Geordie Lip', the Moses of the game, was born in Northumberland in 1940. He grew up in a former pit village near Newcastle, the son of | | |
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Waddington, Paul
Paul Waddington is the author of Seasonal Food and 21st Century Smallholder. He writes regularly for the Guardian and other | | |
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