Kit de Waal (born 1960), British-Irish novelist Charity Waciuma (born 1936), Kenyan novelist Elizabeth Wagele (1939–2017), US author and cartoonist Diane Wakoski (born 1937), US poet Kate Walbert (born 1961), US fiction writer Anne Waldman (born 1945), US poet Rosmarie Waldrop (born 1935), US poet, translator and publisher Alice Walker (born 1944), US fiction writer and poet; The Color Purple Margaret Walker (1915–1998), US poet and novelist Mildred Walker (1905–1998), US novelist Rebecca Walker (born 1969), US writer, feminist and activist Doreen Wallace (1897–1989), English novelist Effie Waller Smith (1879–1960), African-US poet Jeannette Walls (born 1960), US writer and journalist; The Glass Castle María Elena Walsh (1930–2011), Argentine poet, novelist and playwright Ania Walwicz (born 1951), Australian poet Shangguan Wan'er (c.