Home › Authors › Ernest Vincent Wright Ernest Vincent Wright b. 1871 – d. 1939 · 3 books Biography American author, poet and U.S. Navy musician best known for 1939's *Gadsby*, a novel written without the letter "e". Books by Ernest Vincent Wright The wonderful fairies of the sun 2018 Gadsby 2016 Thoughts and reveries of an American bluejacket 1918