P. C. Cast
American author of fantasy, paranormal romance, and young adult fiction, best known for the co-authored House of Night series.
52 works12 series
Author index
Authors beginning with P
P. Craig Russell
American comics artist, writer, adapter, and graphic novelist known for lush, ornate adaptations of opera, mythology, fairy tales, and modern fantasy.
33 works5 series
P. D. James
English crime novelist, memoirist, nonfiction writer, and playwright best known for the Adam Dalgliesh mysteries.
27 works2 series
P. Djèlí Clark
P. Djèlí Clark is an American speculative-fiction author and historian known for historical fantasy, alternate-history fiction, and middle-grade fantasy.
9 works2 series
P. G. Wodehouse
English-American comic novelist, humorist, playwright, lyricist, and memoirist best known for Jeeves and Wooster, Blandings Castle, Psmith, and Mr. Mulliner.
108 works9 series
Pablo Neruda
Chilean poet, diplomat, and Nobel Prize laureate whose work ranges from intimate love poetry to political, historical, ecological, and autobiographical writing.
69 works2 series
Padraic Colum
Irish poet, playwright, novelist, folklorist, biographer, memoirist, and children's author associated with the Irish Literary Revival.
63 works0 series
Paolo Bacigalupi
American science-fiction and fantasy author known for climate fiction, biopunk dystopias, and young-adult speculative fiction.
14 works2 series
Pat Barker
English novelist known for psychologically acute fiction about war, trauma, class, gender, and history.
17 works3 series
Pat Cadigan
Pat Cadigan is an American-British science fiction writer best known for cyberpunk novels exploring the relationship between technology, identity, and the human mind.
25 works6 series
Patricia A. McKillip
American fantasy and science-fiction author known for lyrical, mythic prose and predominantly standalone novels.
32 works4 series
Patricia Briggs
American fantasy and urban fantasy novelist best known for the Mercy Thompson and Alpha and Omega series.
38 works7 series
Patricia C. Wrede
American fantasy author known for inventive fairy-tale, historical, and young-adult fiction.
26 works5 series
Patricia Cornwell
American crime novelist best known for the Kay Scarpetta forensic-thriller series.
44 works5 series
Patricia Highsmith
American novelist and short-story writer known for psychologically intense crime fiction, the Tom Ripley novels, and the landmark novel The Price of Salt.
37 works1 series
Patricia Lockwood
American poet, novelist, memoirist, and essayist known for surreal, comic, and formally inventive writing.
7 works2 series
Patrick deWitt
Canadian-American novelist and screenwriter known for darkly comic literary fiction.
6 works0 series
Patrick Lencioni
American author, consultant, and founder of The Table Group, known for books on leadership, teamwork, and organizational health.
13 works1 series
Patrick Ness
Patrick Ness is an American-British novelist and short-story writer known for speculative, young adult, and children's fiction.
20 works3 series
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist, short-story writer, biographer, and translator best known for the Aubrey-Maturin naval novels.
39 works2 series
Patrick Radden Keefe
American investigative journalist and staff writer at The New Yorker, known for deeply reported narrative nonfiction.
6 works0 series
Patrick Rothfuss
American fantasy author best known for The Kingkiller Chronicle and its companion novellas, with additional nonfiction and graphic fiction.
8 works3 series
Patrick Süskind
German novelist, playwright, essayist, and screenwriter best known for Das Parfum.
9 works0 series
Patti Smith
American poet, memoirist, visual artist, and musician whose poetry, prose, and performance helped shape punk.
30 works1 series
Patton Oswalt
American comedian, actor, writer, and author known for stand-up comedy, memoir, nonfiction, and comic-book writing.
15 works4 series
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, memoirist, biographer, screenwriter, and translator known for metafiction, coincidence, identity, and literary self-reference.
44 works1 series
Paul Beatty
American novelist, poet, and editor known for incisive, satirical writing about race, identity, and American culture.
7 works0 series
Paul Kalanithi
Paul Kalanithi (1977–2015) was an American neurosurgeon and writer best known for his posthumous memoir, When Breath Becomes Air.
1 works0 series
Paul Kidby
English artist and illustrator best known for his definitive visual work on Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
2 works0 series
Paul Michael
American author and editor of illustrated reference books on film, television awards, and professional football.
7 works0 series
Paul Murray
Irish novelist born in Dublin in 1975, known for comic and tragicomic fiction.
4 works0 series
Paul Tremblay
American author of horror, dark fantasy, crime fiction, mystery, thriller, speculative fiction, and short fiction.
20 works1 series
Paul Werstine
Canadian Shakespeare scholar and textual critic specializing in early modern dramatic texts, bibliography, and editorial theory.
51 works3 series
Paula Hawkins
British author and former journalist known for psychological thrillers, including The Girl on the Train.
11 works0 series
Paulette Møller
Danish children's author and educational writer, also known for translating Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World into English.
12 works1 series
Pauline Baynes
English illustrator and author best known for illustrating the works of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien.
11 works0 series
Paulo Coelho
Brazilian novelist, memoirist, essayist, and lyricist known for spiritually themed fiction and reflective prose.
28 works0 series
Pearl S. Buck
American novelist, memoirist, essayist, translator, and children's author known for fiction about China and for winning the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature.
94 works1 series
Pema Chödrön
American Buddhist nun, teacher, and author known for accessible teachings on meditation, compassion, and fearlessness.
17 works0 series
Penelope Curtis
British art historian, curator, and writer known for her scholarship on modern and contemporary sculpture and her leadership of Tate Britain and the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian.
46 works2 series
Penelope Douglas
New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of contemporary and dark romance.
23 works4 series
Peng Shepherd
Peng Shepherd is an award-winning, nationally bestselling author of speculative fiction, including The Book of M, The Cartographers, and All This and More.
4 works0 series
Penn Cole
Penn Cole is an internationally bestselling fantasy-romance author best known for The Kindred's Curse Saga.
4 works1 series
Percival Everett
American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and professor known for intellectually playful, genre-crossing fiction.
36 works0 series
Peter Armour
British Italianist and leading Dante scholar whose books focused on Dante's Purgatorio, allegory, symbolism, and medieval intellectual culture.
6 works0 series
Peter Clines
American novelist and short-story writer known for science fiction, horror, speculative fiction, and superhero fiction.
15 works2 series
Peter David
American writer of novels, comic books, graphic works, television, film, nonfiction, and video games.
144 works9 series
Peter F. Hamilton
British science-fiction author known for large-scale space opera and interconnected future-history series.
35 works11 series
Peter Frankopan
British historian and Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford, known for works on Byzantium, the Silk Roads, and global history.
5 works1 series
Peter Heller
American novelist, memoirist, and adventure writer known for literary fiction and nonfiction centered on wilderness, survival, friendship, and the natural world.
13 works1 series
Peter Hobley Davison
British literary scholar, bibliographer, editor, biographer, and authority on Shakespeare and George Orwell.
67 works2 series
Peter Holland
Author of historical fiction novels set in England and the Mediterranean during periods of political and social upheaval.
4 works1 series
Peter S. Beagle
American fantasy novelist, short-story writer, essayist, poet, editor, nonfiction author, and screenwriter best known for The Last Unicorn.
35 works2 series
Peter Škerl
Slovenian graphic designer and illustrator whose authored work includes graphic storytelling for young readers.
1 works0 series
Peter Straub
American novelist, poet, editor, and author of literary horror and supernatural fiction.
45 works2 series
Peter Swanson
American bestselling author of psychological crime, mystery, and suspense fiction.
13 works1 series
Peter V. Brett
Peter V. Brett is an American fantasy novelist best known for The Demon Cycle and The Nightfall Saga.
14 works2 series
Peter Wohlleben
German forester, author, and nature-conservation advocate known for accessible books about forests, animals, ecology, and sustainable forestry.
36 works2 series
Phil Knight
American businessman, philanthropist, and memoirist who founded Nike, Inc.
1 works0 series
Philip G. Zimbardo
American social psychologist, Stanford professor emeritus, and author known for the Stanford prison experiment, research on shyness and time perspective, and public-facing psychology books.
26 works0 series
Philip Gabriel
American scholar of modern Japanese literature, literary critic, and translator.
2 works0 series
Philip José Farmer
American science-fiction and fantasy author known for imaginative world-building, mythic adventure, and literary crossovers.
89 works6 series
Philip K. Dick
American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and memoirist whose speculative fiction explored unstable reality, identity, technology, politics, and religion.
73 works1 series
Philip Pullman
English novelist, playwright, and essayist best known for His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust.
37 works4 series
Philip Reeve
Philip Reeve is an English author and illustrator best known for imaginative science fiction, fantasy, and children's adventure books.
54 works13 series
Philip Roth
American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, and essayist known for satirical, psychologically complex explorations of Jewish American life, sexuality, identity, politics, and the relationship between fiction and reality.
32 works4 series
Philippa Gregory
Philippa Gregory is a British historical novelist, historian, and playwright known especially for fiction about the Tudor and Plantagenet periods.
49 works7 series
Piers Anthony
American science-fiction and fantasy author best known for the Xanth series.
195 works21 series
Pip Williams
Australian author and social researcher known for historical fiction, memoir, and narrative nonfiction.
4 works0 series
Pittacus Lore
Collective pseudonym associated primarily with James Frey and Jobie Hughes, used for young adult science-fiction fiction.
33 works5 series
Polly Barton
British writer and Japanese-to-English literary translator known for literary nonfiction, memoir, oral history, and fiction.
3 works0 series
Poppy Z. Brite
American author of gothic horror, dark fantasy, Southern Gothic, and darkly comic fiction, also known for nonfiction and short fiction set in New Orleans.
25 works1 series
Poul Anderson
Poul Anderson (1926–2001) was an American science-fiction and fantasy author known for hard science fiction, historical fantasy, alternate history, and adventure fiction.
122 works14 series
Primo Levi
Italian Jewish chemist, writer, Holocaust survivor, and memoirist whose precise, humane works span testimony, fiction, poetry, essays, and science writing.
19 works0 series
Prince Harry
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, is a British royal, humanitarian, military veteran, and memoirist.
1 works0 series
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)
Roman poet renowned for love elegy, mythological epic, didactic poetry, and poetry of exile.
13 works0 series
Publius Vergilius Maro
Virgil (70–19 BCE) was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period, celebrated for the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid.
3 works0 series