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Woodbridge, Elisabeth; [Mrs. Charles G. Norris] (1870-1964) (items) (chron.)
Writer and educator. Born in Brooklyn, New York; died in Globe, Arizona.


Woodbury, Clarence (Moats) (1898-1977) (items) (chron.)
See nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=obse19770421-01.1.27&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN----------


Woodbury, David O(akes) (1896-1981) (items) (chron.)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/woodbury_david_o


Woodbury, Herbert A(rthur) (1901-1980) (items) (chron.)
Harvard graduate. Worked as full time writer for over a decade, rest of life as teacher. Born and mostly lived in Iowa.


Woodfield, William Read (1928-2001) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Woodfield


Woodford, Jack; pseudonym of Josiah Pitts Woolfolk (1894-1971) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Woodford


Woodforde, James (1740-1803) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Woodforde


Woodhouse, Martin (Charlton) (1932-2011) (items) (chron.)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/woodhouse_martin


Woodrooffe, Thomas (1899-1978) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Woodrooffe


Woodrow, Nancy Mann (Waddel) (1867-1935) (items) (chron.)
See oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1602726


Woodrum, Lon (Riley) (1901-1995) (items) (chron.)
Born in Fredric, Illinois; novelist, poet, evangelist, minister in Evangelical United Brethren Church; resident of Oklahoma.


Woods, Bertha Gerneaux (née Davis) (1872-1952); previously known as Bertha Gerneaux Davis (items) (chron.)
See www.findagrave.com/memorial/39208452/bertha-gerneaux-woods


Woods, Christopher (fl. 1990s-2020s) (items) (chron.)
See christopherwoods.zenfolio.com


Woods, Richard F. (1871-1915) (items) (chron.)
Born in Pennsylvania on July 18, 1871; worked as a physician; died in Philadelphia on February 15, 1915.


Woodville, R(ichard) Caton (Jr.) (1856-1927) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Caton_Woodville,_Jr.


Woodward, Arthur (1898-1986) (items) (chron.)
Western writer, expert on Navajo silversmithing; resident in Los Angeles, California. Died in Los Angeles, California. Not to be confused with the advertising man (1875?-1934); and not to be confused with antiquarian Arthur Frank Woodward (1883-1973) or geologist and “discoverer” of the “Piltdown Man” Arthur Smith Woodward (1864-1944).


Woodward, Edward (Emberlin) (1882-1951) (items) (chron.)
Born in Kidderminster; living in Berkshire in the 1930s.


Woodworth, Douglas H. (1894?-1940) (items) (chron.)
Telegraph operator, died in Eau Claire, WI.


Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia (née Stephen) (1882-1941); previously known as Virginia Stephen (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf


Woolfolk, Josiah Pitts (1894-1971); used pseudonyms Howard Hogue Kennedy, Gordon Sayre & Jack Woodford (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Woodford


Woollam, Wilfred (Beet) (1856-1927) (items) (chron.)
See www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=1698


Woollcott, Alexander (Humphreys) (1887-1943) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Woollcott


Woolrich, Cornell; [i.e., Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich] (1903-1968) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Woolrich


Woolston, Florence (née Guy) (1881-1951); later known as Florence Guy Seabury (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Guy_Woolston_Seabury


Wooton, Edwin (Littler) (1855-1933) (items) (chron.)
A journalist.


Worcester, Dean C(onant) (1866-1924) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Conant_Worcester


Wordsworth, Dorothy (Mae Ann) (1771-1855) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Wordsworth


Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth


Wormeley, Katherine Prescott (1830-1908) (items)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Prescott_Wormeley


Wormser, Richard (Edward) (1908-1977) (items) (chron.)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wormser_richard


Worsley, T(homas) C(uthbert) (1907-1977) (items) (chron.)
Teacher, writer, and theatre and television critic.


Worts, George F(rank) (1892-1967) (items) (chron.)
Born in Toledo; radio operator turned freelance writer in Hawaii; screenwriter.


Wotton, [Sir] Henry (1568-1639) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wotton


Wren, P(ercival) C(hristopher) (1875-1941) (items) (chron.)
Born in Deptford, London; birth registered as Percy Wren.


Wrenn, Charles L(ewis) (1880-1952) (items) (chron.)
See pulpartists.com/Wren.html


Wright, Betty Ren; [i.e., Betty Ren Wright Frederiksen] (1927-2013) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Ren_Wright


Wright, Blanche Fisher (1887-1938) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Fisher_Wright


Wright, Charles L. (fl. 1910s) (items) (chron.)
Born in Boston, Massachusetts. Not to be confused with artist Charles H. Wright (1870-1939).


Wright, David (John Murray) (1920-1994) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wright_(poet)


Wright, F(rederick) A(dam) (1869-1946) (items)
See peoplepill.com/people/frederick-adam-wright/tc/sports


Wright, Farnsworth (1888-1940) (items) (chron.)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wright_farnsworth


Wright, George (Hand) (1872-1951) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hand_Wright


Wright, Gilbert (Munger) (1901-1966) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Bell_Wright


Wright, Nancy Means (1927- ) (items) (chron.)
See www.goodreads.com/author/show/280943.Nancy_Means_Wright


Wright, S(ydney) Fowler (1874-1965) (items) (chron.)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wright_s_fowler


Wright, Sewell Peaslee (1897-1970) (items) (chron.)
Author, journalist, advertising writer, radio operator. Born in Butler, Pennsylvania.


Wright, William (1821-1898); used pseudonym Dan de Quille (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_DeQuille


Wright, Xena (Leslie) (1896-1940) (items) (chron.)
See pulpartists.com/Wright.html


Wu, Sam(uel) (1919-2005) (items) (chron.)
See glamourphotographers.yolasite.com/ten-photographers.php


Wurdemann, Audrey (1911-1960) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Wurdemann


Wu Tingfang (1842-1922) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Tingfang


Wyatt, Edith Franklin (1873-1958) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Franklin_Wyatt


Wyckoff, Joseph (1882-1977) (items) (chron.)
See www.askart.com/artist/joseph_wyckoff/10059913/joseph_wyckoff.aspx


Wycombe, Robert; pseudonym (fl. 1930s) (items) (chron.)
for a Fleet Street reporter.


Wyeth, N(ewell) C(onvers) (1882-1945) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._C._Wyeth


Wykes, (Douglas) Alan (1914-1993) (items) (chron.)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wykes_alan


Wyles, Walter (1925-2017) (items) (chron.)
See bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/walter-wyles-1925-2017.html


Wylie, Denis B(owmaker) (1908-1967) (items) (chron.)
Born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia; died in Leeds, England.


Wylie, Dick (fl. 1950s-1960s) (items) (chron.)
Probably a pseudonym.


Wylie, I(da) A(lexa) R(oss) (1885-1959) (items) (chron.)
Born in Melbourne, Australia; a film writer, novelist, magazine writer and poet; lived in England, Germany, Hollywood, and finally New Jersey, where she died (in Princeton).


Wylie, Jeanne E.; [i.e., Jeanne E. Wylie Sproull] (1917-2005) (items) (chron.)
See www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=18464772


Wylie, Philip (Gordon) (1902-1971) (items) (chron.)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wylie_philip


Wyllarde, Dolf; pseudonym of Dorothy Margarette Selby Lowndes (1871-1950) (items) (chron.)
See jot101.com/2015/06/dolf-wyllarde-crazy-name-crazy-gal


Wyn, A(aron) A(rthur) (1898-1967) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._A._Wyn


Wyndham, [Captain] Horace (Cowley) (1873-1970) (items) (chron.)
Born in Oxford, England; educated in Edinburgh.


Wyndham, John; pseudonym of John Beynon Harris (1903-1969) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wyndham


Wynn, Ed; [working name of Isaiah Edwin Leopold] (1886-1966) (items)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Wynn



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