List of Canadian writers
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List of Canadian writers

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Name	Born	Died	Genre	Notable works

Marie Wadden	non-fiction	Where the Pavement Ends, Nitassinan

Mark Sweeten Wade	1858	1929	historian	The Cariboo Road, The Overlanders of '62

Richard Wagamese	1955	2017	novelist	Indian Horse, Medicine Walk

Colleen Wagner	1949	playwright	The Monument

Fred Wah	1939	poet, novelist	Diamond Grill, Loki is Buried at Smoky Creek, Waiting for Saskatchewan

David Walker	1911	1992	novelist	The Pillar, Digby

Joan Walker	novelist	Pardon My Parka, Repent at Leisure

Bronwen Wallace	1945	1989	poet, short stories	Signs of the Former Tenant, People You'd Trust Your Life To

Frederick William Wallace	1886	1958	journalist, novelist	Wooden Ships and Iron Men

William Stewart Wallace	1884	1970	historian	The Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Paul A. W. Wallace	1891	1967	historian, anthropologist	Indians in Pennsylvania

Tom Walmsley	1948	novelist, dramatist, poet	Doctor Tin

Eric Walters	1957	novelist	Safe As Houses, Shattered, Camp X, Run

John Leigh Walters	1933	creative non-fiction	A Very Capable Life

Russell Wangersky	novelist, short stories, journalist	The Hour of Bad Decisions, Burning Down the House, The Glass Harmonica

Ryan Ward	screenwriter	Son of the Sunshine

Sabrina Ward Harrison	1975	spirituality, self-help	Spilling Open

Dianne Warren	1950	playwright, novelist, short stories	Serpent in the Night Sky, Club Chernobyl, Cool Water

David Watmough	1926	playwright, novelist, short stories	Names for the Numbered Years, The Time of Kingfishers

Sheila Watson	1909	1998	novelist	The Double Hook

Alison Watt	1957	creative non-fiction, poet	The Last Island

Thomas Waugh	1948	academic, art and film historian	Out/Lines: Underground Gay Graphics From Before Stonewall, Lust Unearthed: Vintage Gay Graphics from the DuBek Collection

Alison Wearing	1967	travel	Honeymoon in Purdah

Jessica L. Webb	mysteries	Pathogen, Repercussions

Barry Webster	1961	novels, short stories; magic realism	The Sound of All Flesh, The Lava in My Bones

John Weier	1949	poet	Stand the Sacred Tree

Steve Weiner	novelist	The Museum of Love

William Weintraub	1926

Helen Weinzweig	1915	2010	novelist, short stories	Basic Black with Pearls, A View from the Roof

Merrily Weisbord	journalist	The Love Queen of Malabar, The Valour and the Horror

Elizabeth Wellburn	children's literature	Echoes From the Square

Zachariah Wells	1976	poet, critic	Fool's Errand, Unsettled

Andrew Westoll	science, travel, non-fiction	The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary

Robert Paul Weston	1975	poet, children's literature	Zorgamazoo, Dust City

Michael Wex	1954	novelist, playwright, non-fiction	The Adventures of Micah Mushmelon, Boy Talmudist

Ron Weyman	1915	2007	television, mystery, memoir	Sherlock Holmes and the Mark of the Beast, Sherlock Holmes and the Ultimate Disguise, Sherlock Holmes Travels in the Canadian West

Dawud Wharnsby	1972	poet, songwriter	Nasheed Artist

Thomas Wharton	1963	novelist	Salamander, Icefields

Sherry White	screenwriter	Crackie, Down to the Dirt

Joshua Whitehead	poet, novelist	Full-Metal Indigiqueer, Johnny Appleseed

William Whitehead	1931	2018	documentarian, memoirist	Words to Live By

Zoe Whittall	1976

Rudy Wiebe	1934	novelist	A Discovery of Strangers, The Temptations of Big Bear

Helen Waldstein Wilkes	creative non-fiction	Letters from the Lost

Fred Williams	1863	1944	journalism, history	The Canadian Book of Days

Jeffery Williams	1920	2011	military historian	Byng of Vimy, Far from Home

Deborah Willis	1982	fiction writer	Vanishing, The Dark and Other Love Stories

Alan R. Wilson	novels, poetry	Before the Flood

Douglas Wilson	1950	1992	novelist, poet	Labour of Love

Eric Wilson	1940	mysteries	Tom Austen Series (9 books), Liz Austen Series (6 books), Tom and Liz Austen Series (5 books)

Ethel Wilson	1888	1980	novelist	Swamp Angel, Hetty Dorval, The Window

John Wilson	1951	historical fiction	Four Steps to Death, Flames of the Tiger, And in the Morning

Jonathan Wilson	playwright	My Own Private Oshawa, Kilt

Robert Charles Wilson	1953	science fiction	Julian Comstock, A Story of 22nd. America, Darwinia, Axis, Spin

Sheri-D Wilson	poet, playwright	The Sweet Taste of Lightning, Boy Wonder

Jia Qing Wilson-Yang	novelist	Small Beauty

Carol Windley	1947	novelist, short stories	Home Schooling

Rob Winger	1974	poet	Muybridge's Horse

Kathleen Winter	1960	novelist, short stories	Boys, Annabel

Michael Winter	1965	novelist	This All Happened, The Big Why

Kari-Lynn Winters	1969	children's literature, dramatist	Jeffrey and Sloth, On My Walk

Wyndham Wise	film critic and historian	Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film

Adele Wiseman	1928	1992	novelist, poet	The Sacrifice, Old Women at Play

Alan Woo	children's literature, poet, short stories	Maggie's Chopsticks

Jaime Woo	non-fiction	Meet Grindr

George Woodcock	1912	1995	poet, critic	Anarchism, The Crystal Spirit

Susan Wood	1948	1980	critic (Canadian literature, science fiction, children's literature), professor, science fiction fan	Energumen; criticism

Marnie Woodrow	1969	novelist	Spelling Mississippi

Lance Woolaver	1948	poet, playwright	World Without Shadows, Lord Strange

Eric Wright	1929	mysteries	The Night the Gods Smiled, Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man

J. F. C. Wright	1904	1970	journalist, historian	Slava Bohu, Saskatchewan: The History of a Province

L. R. Wright	1939	2001	mysteries	The Suspect, Strangers Among Us

Richard B. Wright	1937	novelist	Clara Callan

Tim Wynne-Jones	1948	novelist, children's literature	Some of the Kinder Planets, Mischief City, The Maestro

Tim Wynveen	novelist	Angel Falls, Sweeter Life, Balloon

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The non-fictional work The Last Island is written by Canadian writer Alison Watt.

final_sentence: The non-fictional work The Last Island is written by Canadian writer Alison Watt.