George Packer
US journalist, novelist, and playwright
novelist
Marcel Pagnol
French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker
Boris Pasternak
Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator
Alan Paton
South African author and anti-apartheid activist
James Patterson
American author and philanthropist
Mervyn Peake
English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator
Georges Perec
French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist
Robert M. Pirsig
American writer and philosopher
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic
Patrick O’Brian
English novelist and translator, best known for his AubreyMaturin series of sea novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and centred on the friendship of the English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the IrishCatalan physician Stephen Maturin