C.
K. Ogden (1889-1957)
British writer, linguist, and critic, the originator of the Basic English
movement, and co-author, with I. A. Richards, of The Meaning of Meaning (1923).
Tillie
Olsen (1913- )
Late blooming American writer (her first book was published when she was 54),
author of Tell Me a Riddle, Silences, and other books.
R. B.
Onians
Classical scholar, author of The Origins of European Thought About the Body,
the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time, and Fate.
George
Orwell (1903-1950)
Pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair. British writer, best known as the author of 1984
(1949). Barfield borrows his idea of "double
think."