William Bronk was an American poet. For his book, Life Supports (1981), he won the National Book Award for Poetry.

William Browne was an English pastoral poet, born at Tavistock, Devon, and educated at Exeter College, Oxford; subsequently he entered the Inner Temple.

William Buell Sprague was an American Congregational and Presbyterian clergyman and compiler of Annals of the American Pulpit, a comprehensive biographical dictionary of the leading American Protestant Christian ministers who died before 1850.

William Burdon (1764–1818) was an English academic, mineowner and writer.

William Burkitt was a biblical expositor, educational pioneer, rector of Milden, Suffolk, and vicar and lecturer of Dedham, Essex, in England.

William Bury Westall was an English novelist born in Old Accrington, Lancashire, England.

William C. Dietz is an American science fiction writer, principally of military science fiction novels and video game novelizations.

William Callyhan Robinson was an American jurist and academic.

William Camden was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald, best known as author of Britannia, the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Annales, the first detailed historical account of the reign of Elizabeth I of England.

William Campbell Gault (1910–1995) was an American writer. He wrote under his own name, and as Roney Scott and Will Duke, among other pseudonyms.