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O'FAOLAIN, SEAN
Novelist & Biographer. Director of Publicity for the IRA in 1921
O'NEILL, EUGENE GLADSTONE
Catholic born Playwright. Nobel Prize 1936
OATES, JOYCE CAROL
Novelist & Children's Writer
OBSERVER BOOKS
Small format books published by Frederick Warne from 1937
OLIPHANT, MARGARET
Prolific Novelist (nearly 100), biographer, travel writer, and writer of
ghost & short stories Presbyterian. Home educated. Married 1852 to
her cousin Francis Wilson Oliphant. When he died of TB in 1869 she began
writing in earnest to pay the bills. Died of cancer
OLSON, CHARLES JOHN
Poet of the "Black Mountain Group"
OPPENHEIM, EDWARD PHILIPS
Novelist (over 160). He wrote and published approx 13 million words,
making him one of the most prolific writers of all time. A number of
early books were pirated in the US, given new titles and attributed to
other authors. Married American Elise Hopkins in 1890
ORCZY, BARONESS (EMMA MAGDALENA ROSALIA MARIA JOSEFA BARBARA)
Novelist, Children's Writer & Illustrator. The family moved to
London. Studied art in London where she met and married Montague
Barstow, a fellow student in 1894. From 1918 they lived in Monte Carlo.
Their son was John Blakeney
ORKNEY ISLANDS
ORWELL, GEORGE
Novelist, Satirist & essayist. Fought and was wounded in the Spanish
Civil War. Lived on Jura 1946-1949. After his first wife died he
married Sonia Brownell (1918-1980) in 1949. Within 3 months Orwell was
dead of TB. He is buried at Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire
OXENHAM, ELSIE J (JEANETTE)
Children's writer, especially about the Camp Fire Movement. Daughter of novelist John Oxenham