The correct answer is D. Paul Kennedy.
Paul Kennedy is a British historian and author. He is best known for his book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, which was published in 1987. The book was a bestseller and won the 1988 Samuel Johnson Prize.
Kennedy’s other books include Preparing for the Twenty-First Century (1993), The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (1987), and The First World War: An Illustrated History (1998).
Larry Collins was an American journalist and novelist. He is best known for his collaboration with Dominique Lapierre on the non-fiction books Is Paris Burning? (1965) and O Jerusalem! (1972).
V. S. Naipaul was a Trinidadian novelist, essayist, travel writer, and short-story writer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001.
V. R. Krishna Iyer was an Indian jurist and politician. He served as a judge of the Supreme Court of India from 1973 to 1980. He was also a member of the Rajya Sabha from 1980 to 1986.