A semi-serious literary document entitled `` The Wings Of Henry James '' is noteworthy, if only for a keenly trenchant though little-known comment on the master's difficult later period by modest Owen Wister, author of `` The Virginian ''.

* 1815 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and author ( d. 1882 )

* 1992 – Henry Clausen, author of the Clausen report ( b. 1905 )

* 1895 – Henry Williamson, English author ( d. 1977 )

* 1973 – Henry Green, English author ( b. 1905 )

* 1958 – Henry Kuttner, American author ( b. 1915 )

Major architects to promote the change in direction from baroque were Colen Campbell, author of the influential book Vitruvius Britannicus ; Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and his protégé William Kent ; Isaac Ware ; Henry Flitcroft and the Venetian Giacomo Leoni, who spent most of his career in England.

Charles Henry Goren ( March 4, 1901 – April 3, 1991 ) was a world champion American bridge player and bestselling author who contributed significantly to the development and popularization of the game following upon the heels of Ely Culbertson in the 1940s and rising to prominence in the 1950s to the early 1960s.

Henry Mayhew was the great-grandfather of Audrey Mayhew Allen ( b. 1870 ), author of a number of children's stories published in various periodicals, and of a book Gladys in Grammarland, an imitation of Lewis Carroll's Wonderland books.

* 1910 – O. Henry, American author ( b. 1862 )

* 1913 – Henry Bauchau, Belgian author and psychoanalyst ( d. 2012 )

Hay was a close friend of Henry Brooks Adams, American historian and author.

A playing card form was published by an official of Britain's Consular Service named William Henry Wilkinson, author of " Chinese origin of playing cards ," under the name of Khanhoo.

* 1882 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American author ( b. 1807 )

* The American author O. Henry humorously referred to a book by " Homer KM " with the character " Ruby Ott " in his short story " The Handbook of Hymen.

* 1972 – Henry de Montherlant, French author ( b. 1896 )

* 2012 – Henry Bauchau, Belgian psychoanalyst and author ( b. 1913 )

* 1950 – Henry Louis Gates, American educator, scholar, and author

* 1862 – O. Henry, American author ( d. 1910 )

Another example is O. Henry ( author of " Gift of the Magi "), for whom the O. Henry Award is named.

" The historian Jasper Ridley, author of several biographies including one on Henry VIII and another on Mary Tudor, goes much further in his dual biography of More and Cardinal Wolsey, The Statesman and the Fanatic, describing More as " a particularly nasty sadomasochistic pervert ," a line of thinking followed by the late Joanna Denny in her 2004 biography of Anne Boleyn.

* In 1907, author Henry James described the mansions in Newport, Rhode Island as being " white elephants " and " witless dreams " because they were summer homes for the wealthy and were unoccupied for most of the year.

* February 14 – Henry Valentine Knaggs, English physician and author ( d. 1954 )

* March 24 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American author ( b. 1807 )

* 1959 – W. Thomas Smith, Jr, American author and columnist

According to F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp, " the widely observed unity of form and point of view ... and general resemblance in linguistic detail throughout the sequence are broadly suggestive of the work of a single author ," though other scholars see Lamentations as the work of multiple authors.

Though the article was signed pseudonymously by " X ," it was well known at the time that the true author was George F. Kennan, the deputy chief of mission of the United States to the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1946, under ambassador W. Averell Harriman.

He served as research assistant for libertarian Republican Congressman Ron Paul in Paul's first term ( 1976 ), and he shared a small office with the staunchly Calvinistic political philosopher, John W. Robbins, who later became a noted anti-Van Til, pro-Clark presuppositional apologist, author, and publisher.

Sociologist, author, and financial journalist Alfred W. Jones is credited with coining the phrase " hedged fund ", in contrast to prior nomenclatures, and is often erroneously credited with creating the first hedge fund structure in 1949.

* 1835 – Thomas W. Knox, American author ( d. 1896 )

* 1931 – Allan W. Eckert, American naturalist and author

* 1986 – Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist, author, and publisher ( b. 1892 )

In 1969, Escher's business advisor, Jan W. Vermeulen, author of a biography in Dutch on the artist, established the M. C.

Richard W. Hughes, author of Ruby and Sapphire, a Bangkok based gemologist who has made many trips to Burma makes the point that for every ruby sold through the junta, another gem that supports subsistence mining is smuggled over the Thai border.

* 24-Harry W. Addison, American author.

* 1930 – Robert W. Firestone, American psychologist and author

Notable residents of Whitehorse include Audrey McLaughlin, the first woman to lead a represented political party ( NDP ) in Canadian federal politics, who has resided in Whitehorse since 1979, Robert W. Service, author of " The Cremation of Sam McGee ", who lived in Whitehorse from 1904 to 1908, and Pierre Berton, an author and television host, born in Whitehorse.

* January 30 – Allan W. Eckert, American historian, naturalist, and author

* January 6 – Thomas W. Knox, American author and journalist ( b. 1835 )

For instance, the residents of Camp Skagway Number One included: William Howard Taft, who went on to become a U. S. President ; Frederick Russell Burnham, the celebrated American scout who arrived from Africa only to be called back to take part in the Second Boer War ; and W. W. White, author and explorer.

* June 26 – Thomas W. Knox, American author and journalist ( d. 1896 )

* One author, noting that references are all but nonexistent before 1907 but frequently seen thereafter, has argued that its popularity derives from the publication that year of Thomas W. Lawson's popular novel Friday, the Thirteenth, in which an unscrupulous broker takes advantage of the superstition to create a Wall Street panic on a Friday the 13th.

The academic and author Jody W. Pennington argues that Lester's journey is the story's center.

On August 15, 1906, the Niagara Movement led by author and scholar W. E. B.

The algorithm was named after Nicholas Metropolis, who was an author along with Arianna W. Rosenbluth, Marshall N. Rosenbluth, Augusta H. Teller, and Edward Teller of the 1953 paper Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines which first proposed the algorithm for the specific case of the Boltzmann distribution ; and W. Keith Hastings, who extended it to the more general case in 1970.

* Ernest W. Retzlaff, physiologist and author who helped develop craniosacral therapy