Leonard Patrick O'Connor Wibberley (9 April 1915 – 22 November 1983), who also published under the name
Patrick O'Connor, among others, was a prolific and versatile
Ireland-born author who spent most of his life in the
United States. Wibberley, who published more than 100 books, is perhaps best known for five satirical novels about an imaginary country
Grand Fenwick, particularly
The Mouse That Roared (1955).