Charles Nordhoff
American novelist and traveler, born in England
Creator
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer
Kathleen Norris
American novelist and newspaper columnist
Lady Murasaki Shikibu
Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period
Patrick O’Brian
English novelist and translator, best known for his AubreyMaturin series of sea novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and centred on the friendship of the English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the IrishCatalan physician Stephen Maturin
Iris Murdoch
Irish and British novelist and philosopher
Edna O’Brien
Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short-story writer
Robert Musil
Austrian philosophical writer
Flann O’Brien
Irish novelist, playwright and satirist, considered a major figure in twentieth century Irish literature
Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist