   leonard patrick o'connor wibberley (9 april 1915 â 22 november 1983): a prolific and versatile ireland-born author, who also wrote under the name patrick o'connor, spent most of his life in the united states. wibberley published, under his name, as well as 3 pen-names, more than 100 books. he is best known for five satirical novels about an imaginary country grand fenwickâparticularly the mouse that roared. wibberley's adult and juvenile publications cut across the categories of fictional novels, history and biography. he also wrote short stories (several published in the saturday evening post), plays and long verse poems. he produced more than fifty juvenile books; for example (with farrar, straus and giroux), the seven-volume treegate series of historical fiction, which takes place during the american revolutionary war and the war of 1812, and a four-volume life of thomas jefferson. as patrick o'connor, he wrote the black tiger series on auto racing, for young adults. throughout the decades, scenes and senses of the sea play important parts in both wibberley's fiction and nonfiction. he wrote a mystery series and is classified as a science fiction writer. three of wibberley's novels have been made into movies: the mouse that roared (1959), the mouse on the moon (1963), the hands of cormac joyce (1972). ==biography== leonard wibberley was born in dublin and educated in ireland and england. he was a son of agronomy professor and author thomas wibberley, a professor of agriculture, university college, cork (one of the three constituents of the national university of ireland) and queen's university belfast. the elder wibberley was an experimental agronomist, who wrote several books arguing his methods and inventions, by which he believed the uk might feed itself, absent empire: notably farming on factory lines: continuous cropping for the large farmer (london, 1919). the latter's second name, "patrick", was his [[confi
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