Beverley Nichols
English writer, playwright and public speaker
british
Nigel Nicolson
English writer, publisher and politician.
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
Edna O’Brien
Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short-story writer
Redmond O’Hanlon
English writer and scholar.
Ben Okri
Nigerian poet and novelist
W. Stanley Moss
British army officer in World War II, and later a successful writer, broadcaster, journalist and traveller
Iris Murdoch
Irish and British novelist and philosopher
V. S. Naipaul
Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English
Robert K. Merton
American sociologist who is considered a founding father of modern sociology, and a major contributor to the subfield of criminology