Title: Was (Not Was)
Content:  Was (Not Was) is an American pop rock group founded in 1979 in Detroit, Michigan, by David Weiss and Don Fagenson, who adopted the stage names David Was and Don Was. Their song catalog features an eclectic mix of pop and rock styles, often featuring guest musicians from across the musical spectrum. The band's most popular period was during the 1980s and early 1990s, with their highest-charting hit, the song "Walk the Dinosaur", released in 1987 as the lead single from their 1988 album What Up, Dog?, becoming a worldwide top-40 hit and peaking at on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The band went on indefinite hiatus in the mid-1990s, but has returned sporadically since the turn of the millennium. Their most recent release was the 2008 album Boo!.
Title: The Wasps
Content: William James Hickie, 1853 – prose, full text ; Benjamin B. Rogers, 1924 – verse, full text ; Arthur S. Way, 1934 – verse ; Douglass Parker, 1962 – verse ; Alan H. Sommerstein, 1983 – prose and verse ; Unknown translator – prose: full text ; Peter Meineck, 1998 – prose ; George Theodoridis, 2007 – prose: full text ; The Atticist, 2018 – prose and verse with commentary: full text ; Moses Hadas: available for digital loan 
Title: David Was
Content:  David Jay Weiss, known as David Was, is an American musician, music producer and journalist. With his stage-brother Don Was, he was the founder of the 1980s pop group Was (Not Was).
Title: Wolfgang R. Wasow
Content:  Wolfgang R. Wasow (25 July 1909 – 11 September 1993) was an American mathematician known for his work in asymptotic expansions and their applications in differential equations.
Title: Bill Wasik
Content:  Wasik is the author of And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture (Viking, 2009) and, with Monica Murphy, Rabid (Viking), which was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. He is also the editor, with Roger D. Hodge, of Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine (New Press, 2008)
Title: Depositphotos
Content:  WAS is an online magazine featuring fascinating stories from around the world, marrying the past with the present in a visual storytelling format.
Title: Was (Not Was)
Content:  Was (Not Was) was among hundreds of artists whose material was destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.
Title: Was (Not Was) (album)
Content:  Was (Not Was) is the debut album by art-funk ensemble Was (Not Was); it was released in 1981. The album was re-released with additional material in 2004 under the name Out Come the Freaks. The art direction was by Maverse Players.
Title: Wasik
Content: Bill Wasik, American magazine editor ; Elżbieta Magdalena Wąsik (born 1961), Polish linguist ; Zdzisław Wąsik (born 1947), Polish linguist and semiotician Wasik or Wąsik is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: 
Title: Don Was
Content:  / Endless Path. Using the stage name "Don Was", he formed the group Was (Not Was) with school friend David Weiss (David Was). The group found commercial success in the 1980s – releasing four albums and logging several hit records. Their biggest hit was "Walk the Dinosaur", from their album What up, Dog? A jazz/R&B album of Hank Williams covers, "Forever's A Long, Long Time" was released in 1997, under the name Orquestra Was. In 2008, Was (Not Was) reunited for an acclaimed new album titled Boo! and tour. Was has received four Grammy Awards including the 1994 Grammy Award for Producer of the Year. He produced several albums for Bonnie Raitt including her Nick 

Question: Who is the author of Was?
Answer: Geoff Ryman.
Geoffrey Charles Ryman.