Olaudah Equiano, known for most of his life as Gustavus Vassa, was a writer and abolitionist from, according to his memoir, the village of Essaka in modern southern Nigeria. Enslaved as a child in Africa, he was shipped to the Caribbean and sold to a Royal Navy officer. He was sold twice more before purchasing his freedom in 1766.
Olindo Guerrini, noto anche con lo pseudonimo di Lorenzo Stecchetti e con altri nomi d'arte come Argìa Sbolenfi, Marco Balossardi, Giovanni Dareni, Pulinera, Bepi e Mercutio, è stato un poeta, scrittore e gastronomo italiano, nonché bibliofilo e studioso di letteratura italiana.
Olive Higgins Prouty was an American novelist and poet, best known for her 1923 novel Stella Dallas and her pioneering consideration of psychotherapy in her 1941 novel Now, Voyager.
Olive Schreiner was a South African author, anti-war campaigner and intellectual. She is best remembered today for her novel The Story of an African Farm (1883), which has been highly acclaimed. It deals boldly with such contemporary issues as agnosticism, existential independence, individualism, the professional aspirations of women, and the elemental nature of life on the colonial frontier.
Olive Tilford Dargan was a writer and a poet. Her early works revolved around mountain poetry. Her works like: The Cycle's Rim, Lute and Furrow, Highland Annals were inspired from her love of mountains and nature. Later in her career, she published novels that focuses on racism, sexism, and fascism through her feminist visions of political activism and romanticism. Her most notable works were Call Home the Heart and A Stone Came Rolling which were written as part of her Gastonia novels.
Oliver Goldsmith oli irlantilainen kirjailija, runoilija ja lääkäri. Hänen tunnetuimpia teoksiaan ovat Wakefieldin kirkkoherra (1766), paimenrunoelma The Deserted Village (1770) sekä näytelmät The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) ja She Stoops to Conquer. Hän kirjoitti myös teoksen "An History of the Earth and Animated Nature" ja hänen kirjoittamakseen oletetaan myös satuklassikko The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, josta on peräisin englanninkielisessä maailmassa tunnettu ilmaus ”goody two-shoes” ('kukkahattutäti').
Oliver Goldsmith was a well known Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet, who is noted for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer. He is thought by some to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765).
