Lucille d'Oyen Iremonger (née Parks) (June 1915 - January 1989) was a non-fiction author and politician. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, her father was the editor of the Jamaica Times. She won a scholarship to study English at Oxford University and moved to England. She married a fellow Oxford undergraduate, Tom Iremonger, in 1939. Her husband received a post as a civil servant in various colonies in the Western Pacific, and she accompanied him to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands and Fiji. Her first book, It's a Bigger Life, was published in 1948 and was based on her experience in the Pacific islands.