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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."