The authors, A to Z
Authors whose surname starts with P
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❦ Sorted by surname, the librarian's way — that's why Edgar Allan Poe lives here under P, not under E.
Thomas Paine
1737–1809 · United Kingdom – United States
Plain style arguments for liberty, rights, and civic courage that still cut through noise.
Dorothy Parker
1893–1967 · United States
Needle sharp wit and mercy; city talk that defends dignity while exposing pose.
Blaise Pascal
1623–1662 · France
Pensees of faith and doubt; heart and reason meet in exact, memorable fragments.
Thomas Love Peacock
1785–1866 · United Kingdom
Novels of ideas as dinner table comedy; poets and cranks under affectionate fire.
Albert Pike
1809–1891 · United States
Esoteric lectures on ethics, symbolism, and myth inside a Masonic tradition.
Plato
-428–-348 · Greece
Dialogues that teach thinking; reason, myth, and civic life explored in living talk.
Edgar Allan Poe
1809–1849 · United States
Precision of mood and method that invents detective logic and the claustrophobia of obsession.
John William Polidori
1795–1821
Ernest Poole
1880–1950 · United States
Labor, family, and city life seen with reforming sympathy and narrative grace.
Eleanor H. Porter
1868–1920 · United States
Bright domestic fiction; optimism as practice and community as chosen work.
Beatrix Potter
1866–1943 · United Kingdom
Tender craft for early readers; animals with purpose humor and care.
Abbé Prévost
1697–1763 · France
Desire, class, and chance in lucid prose; a foundational tale of passion and cost.
An author worth discovering
Abbé Prévost
Desire, class, and chance in lucid prose; a foundational tale of passion and cost.
Marcel Proust
1871–1922 · France
Memory, time, and desire in luxurious prose; attention turned into a full world.
Alexander Pushkin
1799–1897 · Russia
Foundational lyric and narrative sparkle; style that still sets the standard.
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