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.

* 1886 – Randolph Bourne, American writer ( d. 1918 )

* Randolph Bourne ( 1886 – 1918 ), radical writer and opponent of U. S. involvement in World War I.

* The Norwegian-American writer Randolph Edgar Haugan was born in Martell.

* Randolph Mantooth, American actor, writer, and producer

In the last days of his President mandate, he awarded the National Order Steaua României ( rank of ceremonial knighthood ) to the ultra-nationalist controversial politician Corneliu Vadim Tudor, a gesture which drew criticism in the press and prompted Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, fifteen Radio Free Europe journalists, Timișoara mayor Gheorghe Ciuhandu, song writer Alexandru Andrieș, and historian Randolph Braham to return their Romanian honours in protest.

Bert Randolph Sugar ( June 7, 1937 – March 25, 2012 ) was a boxing writer and sports historian.

* Randolph Silliman Bourne ( American writer and critic )

Fifteen Radio Free Europe journalists, Timişoara mayor Gheorghe Ciuhandu, song writer Alexandru Andrieş, and historian Randolph Braham also returned their Steaua României medals as a result of the awards to Tudor and Buzatu.

Whitehead's work remained almost completely unknown to the public and aeronautical community after 1911 until a 1935 article in Popular Aviation magazine co-authored by Stella Randolph, an aspiring writer, and aviation history buff Harvey Phillips.

As to whether Whitehead's wife resented matters, Stella Randolph wrote " Mrs. Whitehead talked very freely and frankly with the writer, who made several visits to her home, in the 1930s, and there was never any intimation that she harbored any resentment about the past.

Paschal Beverly Randolph ( October 8, 1825 – July 29, 1875 ) was an American medical doctor, occultist, Spiritualist, trance medium, and writer.

After leaving the sea, Randolph embarked upon a public career as a lecturer and writer.

Randolph Silliman Bourne ( May 30, 1886 – December 22, 1918 ) was a progressive writer and " leftist intellectual " born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and a graduate of Columbia University.

John Dos Passos, an influential American modernist writer, eulogized Bourne in the chapter " Randolph Bourne " of his novel 1919 and drew heavily on the ideas presented in War Is The Health of the State in the novel.

* Randolph Silliman Bourne ( 1886 – 1918 ), American writer

The term was coined in the early 20th century by writer Randolph Bourne to describe a new way of thinking about relationships between cultures.

Sports Illustrated college basketball writer Seth Davis named Randolph the biggest college basketball recruiting bust of the decade for the 2000s.

With the ensuing California oil boom, or " black-gold " rush, competition from various less scrupulous large oil companies was fierce — several of whom, along with William Randolph Hearst, tried to drive the more honest Bell's smaller operation out of business — a saga documented in the fictionalized account by writer Upton Sinclair in a 1927 novel Oil !, also the basis for the 2007 movie, There Will Be Blood.