Books and Writers

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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