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Pathisa Nyathi
Pathisa Nyathi (1951–2024) was a Zimbabwean historian and writer who documented Ndebele history and oral traditions in more than 50 books, mostly written in isiNdebele, and founded the Amagugu International Heritage Centre.
Patrice Nganang
Patrice Nganang (full name Alain Patrice Nganang) is a Cameroonian novelist, poet, essayist, and professor of comparative literature at Stony Brook University, born in Yaoundé in 1970.
Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell is an American crime writer who began her Kay Scarpetta series with Postmortem in 1990. The novels are forensic thrillers that have sold over 120 million copies.
Patricia Grace
Patricia Grace, born in 1937, is a New Zealand novelist and short story writer of Ngāti Toa descent, a key figure in Māori fiction in English from the 1970s.
Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995), born Mary Patricia Plangman, American suspense novelist of 22 books including Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt (as Claire Morgan), and the five-novel Tom Ripley Ripliad; lived in Switzerland from 1981.
Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
Patricia Kennealy-Morrison (Patricia Kennely, 1946–2021), American rock critic, editor of Jazz & Pop, and fantasy author of The Keltiad Celtic space-opera series; also memoirist of her 1970 handfasting marriage to Jim Morrison.
Patricia Wrede
Patricia Collins Wrede (born 1953, Chicago) is an American fantasy author of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, the Lyra novels, and the Cecelia and Kate books with Caroline Stevermer; a founding Scribbly and worldbuilding-advice writer.
Patrick Califia
Patrick Califia (born 1954), formerly Pat Califia and Patrick Califia-Rice, is an American poet, erotica author, and nonfiction writer on gender and sexuality, author of Macho Sluts, Public Sex, and Sex Changes, and a sex-wars activist in San Francisco.
Patrick Chakaipa
Patrick Chakaipa (1932–2003) was a Zimbabwean Roman Catholic archbishop and Shona-language novelist, the first black Archbishop of Salisbury (Harare) from 1976 until his death in 2003.
Patrick Chamoiseau
Patrick Chamoiseau, born 1953 in Fort-de-France, Martinique, is a French novelist and essayist, a leading figure of the créolité movement who won the 1992 Prix Goncourt for Texaco.
Patrick Hemingway
Patrick Miller Hemingway (1928-2025), Ernest Hemingway's second son and last surviving child, was an East African safari guide and UN forestry officer who edited True at First Light (1999) and managed his father's literary estate from Bozeman, Montana.
Patrick Kavanagh
Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967), Irish poet and novelist from Inniskeen, County Monaghan, author of The Great Hunger, Tarry Flynn, and On Raglan Road; major Irish poet after Yeats.
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011), 'Paddy', British travel writer and SOE officer; walked to Constantinople 1933-35, kidnapped General Kreipe in Crete 1944, wrote A Time of Gifts, Mani, Roumeli, and lived at Kardamyli.
Patrick Modiano
Patrick Modiano, born in 1945 near Paris, is a French novelist whose books return to the German Occupation of Paris; he won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Patrick Ness
Patrick Ness (born 1971) is an American-born author living in London, known for the Chaos Walking trilogy and A Monster Calls, twice Carnegie Medal winner, also screenwriter and Guardian reviewer.
Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian (Richard Patrick Russ, 1914–2000) was an English novelist and translator, author of the 20-volume Aubrey–Maturin Napoleonic naval series beginning with Master and Commander (1969), plus biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso.
Patrick Rothfuss
Patrick Rothfuss (born 1973, Madison, Wisconsin) is the American fantasy author of The Kingkiller Chronicle; The Name of the Wind (2007) and The Wise Man's Fear (2011) were bestsellers, while the third book, The Doors of Stone, remains unpublished, and he runs the charity Worldbuilders.
Patrick White
Patrick White (1912–1990), Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel laureate in Literature, the first and only Australian to win it; author of Voss, The Tree of Man, Riders in the Chariot, and Flaws in the Glass.
Patrick White: A Life
Patrick White: A Life is a 727-page 1991 biography of the Australian novelist and Nobel laureate Patrick White by journalist David Marr, published by Random House Australia.
Pattie Mallette
Pattie Mallette (Patricia Elizabeth Mallette), Canadian author and producer, mother of Justin Bieber; launched his career via YouTube; wrote NYT bestseller Nowhere But Up (Revell, 2012) with A.J. Gregory; teen and Spanish editions; Round 2 foundation.
Pattinattar
Pattinattar (பட்டினத்தார்), also called Pattinattu Pillayar, was a Tamil Siddha saint and poet traditionally placed at Kaveripattinam around the 10th to 11th century, known for hymns of renunciation and devotion to Shiva.
Paul Auster
Paul Auster (1947-2024), American novelist, memoirist, poet and screenwriter, author of The New York Trilogy, Smoke, 4 3 2 1 and Baumgartner; Brooklyn-based, France-beloved postmodernist.
Paul Bourget
Paul Bourget (1852–1935) was a French novelist, critic, and journalist elected to the Académie française in 1894, a master of the psychological novel Le Disciple (1889).
Paul Bowles
Paul Bowles (1910–1999), American composer, novelist, and translator; author of The Sheltering Sky (1949); expatriate in Tangier from 1947; translator of Moroccan writers such as Mohamed Choukri.
Paul Celan
Paul Celan, born Paul Antschel (1920–1970), was a Romanian-born German-language Jewish poet and translator who survived the Holocaust, settled in Paris in 1948, and became known for "Todesfuge."
Paul Claudel
Paul Claudel was a French poet, playwright, and diplomat who spent forty-five years in the foreign service, serving as ambassador to Japan, the United States, and Belgium.
Paul Dakeyo
Paul Dakeyo is a Cameroonian poet and publisher, born in 1948 in Bafoussam, who settled in France in 1969, wrote committed poetry denouncing oppression, and founded Éditions Silex.
Paul Elmer More
Paul Elmer More (1864–1937) was an American literary critic, essayist, and Christian apologist who, with Irving Babbitt, led the New Humanism and wrote the five-volume The Greek Tradition.
Paul Éluard
Paul Éluard (1895–1952), born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel, was a French poet and founder of surrealism, known for his surrealist love poetry and Resistance poem "Liberté".
Paul Ernst (German writer)
Paul Ernst (1866–1933) was a German writer of novels, novellas, and dramas, a chief representative of German Neuklassik who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.