Edna O'Brien attends the Broadway opening of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" on Wednesday, March 20, 2013 in New York. O’Brien, one of the world’s most admired and controversial writers who scandalized her native Ireland with her debut novel, “The Country Girls,” died Saturday, July 27, 2024, at age 93. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)