Wright served an apprenticeship with the great architects Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler and in 1892 designed his first building, the...

John Woolman – 1720-1772
Woolman and his father, English Quakers, immigrated to New Jersey when young Woolman was 21 in 1741. Three years later, John Woolman...

C. Vann Woodward – 1908-1999
A professor of American history at Johns Hopkins (1946–1961) and Yale (1961–1977), Woodward was regarded as the most important...

Bob Woodward – 1943–
With Carl Bernstein, Woodward made journalism history—and changed American history—with investigative reporting, in the Washington...

Victoria Claflin Woodhull – 1838-1927
Born into a family of impoverished eccentrics, Victoria Claflin was part of her family’s traveling medicine and fortune-telling show,...

Leonard Wood – 1860-1927
Wood began his military career as a civilian contract surgeon, later becoming a medical officer. He served as military governor of Cuba...

Grant Wood – 1892-1942
Iowa-born Wood depicted not the impressive landscapes of the eastern or western mountains, but the humbler surroundings of his native...

Tom Wolfe- 1930–
Wolfe earned instant fame with his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine- Flake Streamline Baby (1964), a collection of essays that...

Thomas Wolfe – 1900-1938
A native of Asheville, North Carolina, Wolfe tried unsuccessfully to become a playwright, then turned to fiction, creating in a very...