Katherine Anne Porter
American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist
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Iris Origo
English-born biographer and writer
George Packer
US journalist, novelist, and playwright
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
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
S. J. Perelman
American humorist and screenwriter