[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$fnaNrWbzgHMPBz2oTnkAKnXClPOWC6jGVun3GTCb0shs":3},{"authors":4,"pagination":197},[5,13,21,27,35,41,47,53,58,64,70,78,84,90,98,104,112,118,126,131,137,143,148,156,162,168,174,180,185,191],{"id":6,"author_name":7,"author_name_first_letter":8,"article_count":9,"bio":10,"short_bio":10,"slug":11,"image_url":10,"_count":12},207726,"O. A. Battista","O",26,null,"o-a-battista",{"quote":9},{"id":14,"author_name":15,"author_name_first_letter":8,"article_count":16,"bio":17,"short_bio":18,"slug":19,"image_url":10,"_count":20},9709,"O. Henry",667,"William Sydney Porter, known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer and journalist born in Greensboro on September 11, 1862.\n\nHis life moved between two American cities: he was born in Greensboro and died in New York City on June 5, 1910, at the age of forty-seven. He worked in English throughout his career, producing fiction alongside his work as a journalist. Both roles occupied him during a writing life that ended in New York City, far from the Southern town where it began.\n\nAmong the works attributed to him, \"The Gift of the Magi\" and \"The Last Leaf\" are the most frequently cited. He also worked as a journalist, a role he held alongside his identity as a short story writer. The two titles that carry his name most prominently in the record — \"The Gift of the Magi\" and \"The Last Leaf\" — represent the short story form he practiced in English until his death in 1910.","William Sydney Porter, known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer and journalist born in Greensboro on September 11, 1862.","o-henry",{"quote":16},{"id":22,"author_name":23,"author_name_first_letter":8,"article_count":24,"bio":10,"short_bio":10,"slug":25,"image_url":10,"_count":26},214488,"O. J. Mayo",57,"o-j-mayo",{"quote":24},{"id":28,"author_name":29,"author_name_first_letter":8,"article_count":30,"bio":31,"short_bio":32,"slug":33,"image_url":10,"_count":34},186408,"O. J. Simpson",477,"O. J. Simpson was an American football player and actor who also worked as a sports commentator across a career that spanned several decades.\n\nBorn on July 9, 1947, in San Francisco, Simpson attended Galileo Academy of Science and Technology before going on to City College of San Francisco. He later studied at the University of Southern California, where his football career took shape before he moved into the professional game.\n\nAs a football player, Simpson received the Associated Press Athlete of the Year award and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, two of the more significant honors of his athletic life. Alongside his football career, he worked as a sports commentator and took on roles as a film actor, appearing in a number of productions that extended his public profile well beyond the playing field. The facts also note him as an athletics competitor and an association football player, pointing to a broader involvement in sport than his American football career alone might suggest.\n\nSimpson died on April 10, 2024, in Las Vegas, at the age of 76. His life touched on professional sport, broadcast commentary, and acting — three distinct fields that together defined much of his public identity over the course of his adult years.","O. J. Simpson was an American football player and actor who also worked as a sports commentator across a career that spanned several decades.","o-j-simpson",{"quote":30},{"id":36,"author_name":37,"author_name_first_letter":8,"article_count":38,"bio":10,"short_bio":10,"slug":39,"image_url":10,"_count":40},186407,"O. 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Melling","or-melling",{"quote":9},{"id":59,"author_name":60,"author_name_first_letter":8,"article_count":61,"bio":10,"short_bio":10,"slug":62,"image_url":10,"_count":63},17706,"Obert Skye",48,"obert-skye",{"quote":61},{"id":65,"author_name":66,"author_name_first_letter":8,"article_count":67,"bio":10,"short_bio":10,"slug":68,"image_url":10,"_count":69},191123,"Obie Trice",46,"obie-trice",{"quote":67},{"id":71,"author_name":72,"author_name_first_letter":8,"article_count":73,"bio":74,"short_bio":75,"slug":76,"image_url":10,"_count":77},2763,"Ocean Vuong",202,"Ocean Vuong is an American poet, essayist, and writer born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on October 14, 1988.\n\nVuong later became a United States citizen and attended Glastonbury High School before pursuing higher education at Brooklyn College and subsequently at New York University. Alongside his writing, he holds a position as a university teacher. He works in both English and Vietnamese.\n\nAmong his notable works is On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. His writing has been recognized through a range of awards and fellowships, including the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Whiting Award, and the MacArthur Fellows Program award. Earlier in his career he also received the Kundiman Fellowship and the Chad Walsh Poetry Prize.\n\nVuong's work spans poetry and the essay form, and his practice as a poet and essayist writing in English and Vietnamese marks a consistent thread running through his career as a writer and university teacher.","Ocean Vuong is an American poet, essayist, and writer born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on October 14, 1988.","ocean-vuong",{"quote":73},{"id":79,"author_name":80,"author_name_first_letter":8,"article_count":81,"bio":10,"short_bio":10,"slug":82,"image_url":10,"_count":83},22482,"Oche Otorkpa",38,"oche-otorkpa",{"quote":81},{"id":85,"author_name":86,"author_name_first_letter":8,"article_count":87,"bio":10,"short_bio":10,"slug":88,"image_url":10,"_count":89},9683,"Octave Mirbeau",44,"octave-mirbeau",{"quote":87},{"id":91,"author_name":92,"author_name_first_letter":8,"article_count":93,"bio":94,"short_bio":95,"slug":96,"image_url":10,"_count":97},1315,"Octavia Butler",162,"Parable of the Sower is among the works that most often brings readers to Butler's writing, and it sits alongside Kindred, Lilith's Brood, and the Patternist series as part of a body of fiction she built across her career as an American novelist.\n\nButler was born on June 22, 1947, in Pasadena, California, and attended John Muir High School there before going on to Pasadena City College and then California State University, Los Angeles. She wrote in English throughout her career, producing novels and shorter fiction that earned her recognition across several award categories. Among those honors were Hugo Awards for Best Short Story and Best Novelette, a Nebula Award for Best Novel, a Nebula Award for Best Novelette, a Locus Award for Best Novelette, a Bram Stoker Award for Best Graphic Novel, and the Premi Ictineu award.\n\nBeyond awards tied specifically to fiction, Butler received the MacArthur Fellows Program award, the Langston Hughes Medal, and was inducted into both the National Women's Hall of Fame and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. She also received the Ignyte Award for Best Comics Team, suggesting that her work extended across more than one format during her lifetime.\n\nButler died on February 24, 2006. Her induction into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame stands as one of the more formal recognitions the field extended to her, and her receipt of the MacArthur Fellows Program award remains a concrete marker of the regard in which she was held as a writer.","Parable of the Sower is among the works that most often brings readers to Butler's writing, and it sits alongside Kindred, Lilith's Brood, and the Patternist series as part of a body of fiction she built across her career as an American novelist.","octavia-butler",{"quote":93},{"id":99,"author_name":100,"author_name_first_letter":8,"article_count":101,"bio":10,"short_bio":10,"slug":102,"image_url":10,"_count":103},1288,"Octavia E. Butler",339,"octavia-e-butler",{"quote":101},{"id":105,"author_name":106,"author_name_first_letter":8,"article_count":107,"bio":108,"short_bio":109,"slug":110,"image_url":10,"_count":111},95125,"Octavia Spencer",176,"In the year she took home the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Octavia Spencer also received a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and a Golden Globe Award — a convergence of recognition that marked a significant moment in her career.\n\nBorn on May 25, 1970, in Montgomery, Spencer grew up in Alabama before pursuing her education at Johnson Abernathy Graetz High School and later at Auburn University. Those formative years in the South preceded a professional life that would span multiple corners of the entertainment industry, from stage performance to screen work of considerable range.\n\nOver the course of her career, Spencer has worked as an actor, film actor, television actor, voice actor, film producer, and film director — a breadth of involvement that places her on both sides of the creative process. Her work as a voice actor extends her presence beyond live-action performance, while her roles as producer and director indicate engagement with the shaping of projects rather than simply appearing in them. She has also been recognized by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, which awarded her the Woman of the Year honor, and she has received Actor Awards in addition to her three major industry prizes.\n\nThe Library of Congress carries an authority record for her under the name Spencer, Octavia — a formal acknowledgment that reflects the accumulated weight of her documented work across film and television. That institutional record, alongside the Academy Award, the BAFTA, and the Golden Globe, stands as the concrete measure of a career built across multiple roles in American entertainment.","In the year she took home the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Octavia Spencer also received a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and a Golden Globe Award — a convergence of recognition that marked a significant moment in her career.","octavia-spencer",{"quote":107},{"id":113,"author_name":114,"author_name_first_letter":8,"article_count":115,"bio":10,"short_bio":10,"slug":116,"image_url":10,"_count":117},29202,"Octavian Paler",61,"octavian-paler",{"quote":115},{"id":119,"author_name":120,"author_name_first_letter":8,"article_count":121,"bio":122,"short_bio":123,"slug":124,"image_url":10,"_count":125},5302,"Octavio Paz",292,"The twentieth century produced a remarkable convergence of surrealism and modernism in Spanish-language literature, movements that drew writers toward formal experimentation and deep interrogations of culture and identity. Octavio Paz, born in Mexico City on 31 March 1914, worked within and across these currents as a poet, essayist, writer, philosopher, diplomat, and literary critic whose output spanned most of the century.\n\nPaz was educated at Colegio Williams, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and the University of California, Berkeley, forming a broad intellectual foundation that supported his work across multiple disciplines. Writing in Spanish, he engaged the registers of both surrealism and modernism, occupying roles that ranged from poet and essayist to translator, librettist, and university teacher. His work as a diplomat also placed him at points of intersection between Mexican cultural life and the wider international sphere, while his philosophical interests gave his writing an analytical dimension that extended beyond purely literary concerns.\n\nThe honors Paz received over the course of his career reflected the range and scope of his contributions. In 1977 he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, followed by the Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 1981, one of the most significant recognitions available to writers working in the Spanish language. The Neustadt International Prize for Literature followed in 1982, further establishing his standing among his contemporaries on a global scale.\n\nThe culminating recognition came in 1990, when Paz received the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded by the Swedish Academy. He continued to live and work in Mexico City, the city of his birth, until his death there in April 1998. The Nobel Prize in Literature remains the most prominent of the honors attached to his name, and it is on that distinction that his place in the international literary record is formally anchored.","The twentieth century produced a remarkable convergence of surrealism and modernism in Spanish-language literature, movements that drew writers toward formal experimentation and deep interrogations of culture and identity. Octavio Paz, born in Mexico City on 31 March 1914, worked within and across these currents as a poet, essayist, writer, philosopher, diplomat, and literary critic whose output spanned most of the century.","octavio-paz",{"quote":121},{"id":127,"author_name":128,"author_name_first_letter":8,"article_count":61,"bio":10,"short_bio":10,"slug":129,"image_url":10,"_count":130},114539,"Odette Annable","odette-annable",{"quote":61},{"id":132,"author_name":133,"author_name_first_letter":8,"article_count":134,"bio":10,"short_bio":10,"slug":135,"image_url":10,"_count":136},178979,"Odeya Rush",27,"odeya-rush",{"quote":134},{"id":138,"author_name":139,"author_name_first_letter":8,"article_count":140,"bio":10,"short_bio":10,"slug":141,"image_url":10,"_count":142},11571,"Odilon Redon",36,"odilon-redon",{"quote":140},{"id":144,"author_name":145,"author_name_first_letter":8,"article_count":44,"bio":10,"short_bio":10,"slug":146,"image_url":10,"_count":147},214494,"Offset","offset",{"quote":44},{"id":149,"author_name":150,"author_name_first_letter":8,"article_count":151,"bio":152,"short_bio":153,"slug":154,"image_url":10,"_count":155},2146,"Og Mandino",312,"Augustine \"Og\" Mandino II was born in Framingham on a date that existing records place as either December 12, 1923, or June 1, 1924. A citizen of the United States, he attended Natick High School before pursuing a career as a writer working in the English language. His books eventually sold over 50 million copies and were translated into more than 25 languages.\n\nAmong his works, Mandino authored The Greatest Salesman in the World, a title associated with his career as an American writer. Alongside his writing, he served as president of Success Unlimited magazine, a position he held until 1976. His professional life also extended into public speaking, and he was inducted into the National Speakers Association's Hall of Fame, a formal recognition of his contributions in that field.\n\nMandino died on September 3, 1996, in Antrim. His induction into the National Speakers Association's Hall of Fame, combined with the translation of his books into more than 25 languages and cumulative sales exceeding 50 million copies, marks the documented reach of his career at the time of his death.","Augustine \"Og\" Mandino II was born in Framingham on a date that existing records place as either December 12, 1923, or June 1, 1924. A citizen of the United States, he attended Natick High School before pursuing a career as a writer working in the English language. His books eventually sold over 50 million copies and were translated into more than 25 languages.","og-mandino",{"quote":151},{"id":157,"author_name":158,"author_name_first_letter":8,"article_count":159,"bio":10,"short_bio":10,"slug":160,"image_url":10,"_count":161},5355,"Ogden Nash",387,"ogden-nash",{"quote":159},{"id":163,"author_name":164,"author_name_first_letter":8,"article_count":165,"bio":10,"short_bio":10,"slug":166,"image_url":10,"_count":167},14905,"Oğuz Atay",64,"oguz-atay",{"quote":165},{"id":169,"author_name":170,"author_name_first_letter":8,"article_count":171,"bio":10,"short_bio":10,"slug":172,"image_url":10,"_count":173},3678,"Ogwo David Emenike",122,"ogwo-david-emenike",{"quote":171},{"id":175,"author_name":176,"author_name_first_letter":8,"article_count":177,"bio":10,"short_bio":10,"slug":178,"image_url":10,"_count":179},8162,"Ojingiri Hannah",58,"ojingiri-hannah",{"quote":177},{"id":181,"author_name":182,"author_name_first_letter":8,"article_count":87,"bio":10,"short_bio":10,"slug":183,"image_url":10,"_count":184},214496,"Ok Taec-yeon","ok-taec-yeon",{"quote":87},{"id":186,"author_name":187,"author_name_first_letter":8,"article_count":188,"bio":10,"short_bio":10,"slug":189,"image_url":10,"_count":190},30997,"Okakura Kakuzō",37,"okakura-kakuzo",{"quote":188},{"id":192,"author_name":193,"author_name_first_letter":8,"article_count":194,"bio":10,"short_bio":10,"slug":195,"image_url":10,"_count":196},214497,"Okieriete Onaodowan",29,"okieriete-onaodowan",{"quote":194},{"currentPage":198,"totalPages":199,"totalItems":200,"itemsPerPage":201},1,7,203,30]