Anne Rice
American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Christian literature
Creator
Mervyn Peake
English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator
Marco Polo
Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295. His travels are recorded in The Travels of Marco Polo , a book that described to Europeans the then mysterious culture and inner workings of the Eastern world, including the wealth and great size of the Mongol Empire and China in the Yuan Dynasty, giving their first comprehensive look into China, Persia, India, Japan and other Asian cities and countries.Born in Venice, Marco learned the mercantile trade from his father and his uncle, Niccol and Maffeo, who travelled through Asia and met Kublai Khan
Richard Broxton Onians
Classicist and Hildred Carlile Professor of Latin in the University of London
Nancy Pearl
American librarian, best-selling author, literary critic and the former Executive Director of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library
Katherine Anne Porter
American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist
Iris Origo
English-born biographer and writer
Samuel Pepys
English diarist and naval administrator
Beatrix Potter
English writer, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist; she was best known for her children’s books featuring animals, such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit
George Orwell
English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic