Nathaniel Philbrick
American author of history, winner of the National Book Award, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
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Robert M. Pirsig
American writer and philosopher
George Plimpton
American journalist, writer, literary editor, actor and occasional amateur sportsman
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic
Katherine Anne Porter
American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist
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