Larry Niven
American science fiction writer
novelist
Charles Nordhoff
American novelist and traveler, born in England
Kathleen Norris
American novelist and newspaper columnist
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
Flann O’Brien
Irish novelist, playwright and satirist, considered a major figure in twentieth century Irish literature
Herta Muller
Romanian-born German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature
Flannery O’Connor
American novelist, short story writer and essayist
Herman Melville
American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period
Arthur Miller
American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater