* William Raspberry, journalist

* 1994: William Raspberry, Washington Post, " for his compelling commentaries on a variety of social and political topics.

* William Raspberry

* William Raspberry, Washington Post Comments on problems with the 2004 election January 10, 2005

William Raspberry ( October 12, 1935 – July 17, 2012 ) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated American public affairs columnist.

** William Raspberry of The Washington Post, for his compelling commentaries on a variety of social and political topics.

William Styron, while facing the changing economy with a certain uneasy reluctance, insists he is not to be classified as a Southern writer and yet includes traditional Southern concepts in everything he publishes.

* William S. Burroughs, novelist, short story writer, essayist and spoken word performer

* Ajax, pen name of Australian nature writer Sidney William Jackson

* 1785 – William Whitehead, English writer ( b. 1715 )

Beat writer William Burroughs read a paper by Richard Evans Schultes on the subject and sought out yagé in the early 1950s while traveling through South America in the hopes that it could relieve or cure opiate addiction ( see The Yage Letters ).

* 1836 – William Godwin, English political writer ( b. 1756 )

William Gibson with his novel Neuromancer ( 1984 ) is likely the most famous writer connected with the term cyberpunk.

The concept can be traced to at least the Dadaists of the 1920s, but was popularized in the late 1950s and early 1960s by writer William S. Burroughs, and has since been used in a wide variety of contexts.

* 1949 – William Messner-Loebs, American comics writer

* 1870 – William Laurel Harris, American mural painter and writer ( d. 1924 )

During the golden age of bohemianism, Greenwich Village became famous for such eccentrics as Joe Gould ( profiled at length by Joseph Mitchell ) and Maxwell Bodenheim, dancer Isadora Duncan, writer William Faulkner, and playwright Eugene O ' Neill.

His brothers were director / writer Kenneth Neil Hawks and film producer William Bettingger Hawks.

In 1909 he had a daughter, Anna-Jane, with the writer Amber Reeves, whose parents, William and Maud Pember Reeves, he had met through the Fabian Society ; and in 1914, a son, Anthony West ( 1914 – 1987 ), by the novelist and feminist Rebecca West, twenty-six years his junior.

OUs contributors included William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Gil J Wolman, François Dufrêne, Bernard Heidsieck, John Furnival, Tom Phillips, and the Austrian sculptor, writer and Dada pioneer Raoul Hausmann.

In its heyday, many celebrities belonged to the Golden Dawn, such as actress Florence Farr, Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne, Irish writer William Butler Yeats, Welsh author Arthur Machen, English author Evelyn Underhill, and English author Aleister Crowley.

Table of prohibited marriages from The Trial of Bastardie by William Clerke ( writer ) | William Clerke.

Oscar Wilde, famous anarchist irish people | irish writer of the decadent movement and famous dandyThe English enlightenment political theorist William Godwin was an important influence as mentioned before.

* 1900 – William Heinesen, Faroese writer, poet and artist ( d. 1991 )

* 1865 – William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1937 )

* 2004 – William Manchester, American writer ( b. 1922 )

* 1955 – William Wall, Irish writer

Many young churchmen and others enquiring about their faith visited him and sought his advice, including such well-known social figures as the writer and philanthropist Hannah More, and the young Member of Parliament, William Wilberforce, who had recently undergone a crisis of conscience and religious conversion as he was contemplating leaving politics.

* 1939 – William Levy, Dutch writer

The first of the negative reviews was written by William Hazlitt, literary critic and Romantic writer.

When Dirks left William Randolph Hearst for the promise of a better salary under Joseph Pulitzer, it was an unusual move, since cartoonists regularly deserted Pulitzer for Hearst.

William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Time of Your Life ( 1939 ) includes a colorful character, an old man, based on the image and reputation of Kit Carson.

" Waits also continued to further his acting career with a supporting role as Rudy the Kraut in Ironweed ( an adaptation of William Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ) alongside Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, in which Waits performed the song " Big Rock Candy Mountain ", as well as a part in Robert Frank's Candy Mountain, in which Waits also performed " Once More Before I Go.

In July 1899, a large number of New York City newsboys refused to distribute the papers of Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the World, and William Randolph Hearst, publisher of the Journal.

These include The Reivers by William Faulkner ( 1962 ), September, September by Shelby Foote ( 1977 ), The Old Forest and Other Stories by Peter Taylor ( 1985 ), the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor ( 1986 ), The Firm ( 1991 ) and The Client ( 1993 ), both by John Grisham, Memphis Afternoons: a Memoir by James Conaway ( 1993 ), " Plague of Dreamers " by Steve Stern ( 1997 ) Cassina Gambrel Was Missing by William Watkins ( 1999 ), The Guardian by Beecher Smith ( 1999 ), " We are Billion-Year-Old Carbon " by Corey Mesler ( 2005 ), The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, and The Architect by James Williamson ( 2007 ).

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. included William Harvey in a list of " The Ten Most Influential People of the Second Millennium " in the World Almanac & Book of Facts.

Photographer William M. Gallagher of the Flint Journal won the 1953 Pulitzer prize on the strength of the image.

* The Confessions of Nat Turner ( 1967 ), a novel by William Styron, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1968.

A reporting team won the award in 1973, followed by reporter William Mullen and photographer Ovie Carter, who won a Pulitzer for international reporting in 1975.

In 1987, reporters Jeff Lyon and Peter Gorner won a Pulitzer for explanatory reporting, and in 1988, Dean Baquet, William Gaines and Ann Marie Lipinski won a Pulitzer for investigative reporting.

Other well-known alumni: syndicated columnist and Politico editor Roger Simon, reclusive media mogul Fred Eychaner, environmental journalist William Allen, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, New York Times columnist David Brooks, author of Bobos in Paradise, pop artist Claes Oldenburg, consumer advocate David Horowitz, columnist Mike Royko, and Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Herbert Lawrence Block, ( commonly known as Herblock ).

Picnic is a 1955 Cinemascope production, the film adapted for the screen by Daniel Taradash from William Inge ’ s 1953 Pulitzer Prize winning play.

The Pulitzer Prize winning television critic, William Henry III wrote for the museum's booklet: Kovacs was more than another wide-eyed, self-ingratiating clown.

In 1972, the " Book World " section was introduced with Pulitzer Prize winning critic William McPherson as its first editor.

* William McPherson ( writer, Pulitzer Prize )

Past residents include Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, William Cullen Bryant, poet and journalist, Alfred Lansing, author of Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, and Natalie Portman.

Included among De Leon's most distinguished citizens are former Texas Speaker of the House and later Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes, a protégé of John B. Connally and Lyndon B. Johnson, and the 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner William White, whose The Taft Story focuses upon Republican presidential contender Robert A. Taft.

William Carlos Williams, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who died in 1963, was born in Rutherford in 1883.

Despite the controversy, the novel became a runaway critical and financial success, eventually winning the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the William Dean Howells Medal in 1970.

* William Schuman's cantata A Free Song wins the first Pulitzer Prize for Music

He is one of only three novelists ( the others being William Faulkner and John Updike ) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once.