George Plimpton
American journalist, writer, literary editor, actor and occasional amateur sportsman
Creator
Alan Paton
South African author and anti-apartheid activist
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus
Lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome
James Patterson
American author and philanthropist
Plutarch
Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi
Jim Paul
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Edgar Allan Poe
American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic
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