Wayne Rooney

Wayne Rooney was born in Liverpool in October 1985. He was only nine when he was spotted by Everton scout Bob Pendleton playing for boys' club Copplehouse in the local Walton and Kirkdale Junior League. In his last season with them he scored 99 goals before joining the Everton academy.

Wayne W. Dyer

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer is the best-selling author of 12 books and has a doctorate in counseling psychology. He lectures across the country to groups numbering in the thousands and appears regularly on radio and television. He lives with his family in southern Florida.

Wendell Rodricks

Wendell Rodricks has put the tiny Indian state of Goa firmly on the fashion map. Establishing his own label in 1990, he moved to his ancestral village in Goa in 1993, creating memorable collections each season, inspired by many emotions. Known as India's Guru of minimalism, he gave the country

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Wilbur Smith

Wilbur Smith was born in Central Africa in 1933. He was educated at Michaelhouse and Rhodes University. He became a full-time writer in 1964 after the successful publication of WHEN THE LION FEEDS, and has since written over thirty novels, all meticulously researched on his numerous expeditions worldwide. His books

Wilkie Collins

William Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. He wrote 30 novels, more than 60 short stories, 14 plays, and more than 100 essays. His best-known works are The Woman in White and The Moonstone.

Will Storr

Will Storr is an award-winning writer. His work has appeared in the Guardian, Sunday Times, New Yorker and New York Times. He is the author of four critically acclaimed books, most recently Selfie: How the West Became Self-Obsessed. He teaches popular journalism and storytelling classes in London. He is an

Will Caine

Will Caine lives in South London, and is a BAFTA award-winning and highly acclaimed investigative film-maker and journalist. He has spent much of his life delving into the secrets of state, and has written non-fiction books under another name. The Inquiry is his first thriller.

Willa Cather

Willa Cather (1873-1947) was an American author known for her works on frontier life, including the “prairie trilogy”, which includes O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Antonia. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 1923.

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William Dalrymple

William Dalrymple is a writer, traveller and historian as well as a curator, critic and one of the co-directors and founders of the annual Jaipur Literature Festival. His first book, In Xanadu, written when he was twenty-two, was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize He is the author

William Duggan

William Duggani is associate professor of management at Columbia Business School, where he teaches strategic intuition. He has twenty years of experience as a strategy advisor and consultant and is the author of The Art of What Works: How Success Really Happens and Napoleon's Glance: The Secret of Strategy.

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William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba was born in1987 in Dowa, Malawi, and grew up on his family farm in Masitala Village, Wimbe, two and half hours northeast of Malawi’s capital city. The second eldest of seven children, William has six sisters.

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William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta in July 1811. Though he was never keen in academics, Thackeray had the benefits of Charterhouse and Cambridge. He began writing and turned to journalism to support his family. He produced art criticisms and fictional works for Fraser’s Magazine, reviewed books for the

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest playwright the world has seen. He produced an astonishing amount of work; 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and 5 poems. He died on 23rd April 1616, aged 52, and was buried in the Holy Trinity Church, Stratford.

William Ury

William Ury, cofounder of Harvard’s Program on Negotiation, is one of the world’s best-known and most influential experts on negotiation. He is the coauthor of Getting to Yes, the bestselling negotiation book in the world, and has taught negotiation to tens of thousands of people, has consulted for dozens of

William Zinsser

William Zinsser is a writer, editor and teacher. He began his career with the New York Herald Tribune and has long been a freelance writer for leading magazines. During the 1970’s he taught writing at Yale, where he was master of Branford College. From 1979 to 1987 he was general

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Wilson Scarlet

Scarlet Wilson writes Romances and Medical Romance for Harlequin Mills & Boon. She lives on the west coast of Scotland with her fiance and their two sons. She loves to hear from readers and can be reached via her website: scarlet-wilson.com

Winslow Don

Don Winslow is the author of nineteen acclaimed, award-winning, international bestsellers – including the No. 1 international bestseller The Cartel, winner of the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, The Power of the Dog, Savages, and The Winter of Frankie Machine – several of which have been made into movies or

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Won-pyung  Sohn

Sohn Won-pyung (b.1979) earned BA in social studies and philosophy at Sogang University and film directing at Korean Academy of Film Arts. She won the Film Review Award of the 6th Cine21 in 2001. Her movie script “I Believe In the Moment” won the Science Fantasy Writers’ Award in 2006.

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Joshy Benedict

Joshy Benedict is an artist and animator from Kerala. He graduated from the Government Fine Arts College, Thrissur. His debut graphic novel, The Pig Flip, garnered widespread acclaim within Kerala’s artistic and literary circles when it first appeared in Malayalam titled Pannimalath. Joshy’s first independent animation short, A Coconut Tree,

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Nora Roberts is the New York Times bestselling author of more than one hundred and ninety novels. A born storyteller, she creates a blend of warmth, humour and poignancy that speaks directly to her readers and has earned her almost every award for excellence in her field. The youngest of five

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Chris van Tulleken trained in medicine in Oxford and is a Member of the Royal College of Physicians. He has a diploma in Tropical Medicine from the London School of Tropical Medicine and after more than a decade working in the NHS he is now doing a PhD in Molecular