Erich Maria Remarque
German novelist
american
David Remnick
American journalist and writer
Anne Rice
American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Christian literature
Dawn Powell
Award-winning novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and short story writer
Thomas Powers
American author and intelligence expert
Elaine Pagels
American historian of religion
Heinz R. Pagels
American physicist, an associate professor of physics at Rockefeller University, the executive director and chief executive officer of the New York Academy of Sciences, and president of the International League for Human Rights
Dorothy Parker
American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; she was best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles
Francis Parkman
American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America
James Patterson
American author and philanthropist