- Pacheco, José Emilio
- Paine, Tom
- Palahniuk, Chuck
- Palmer, Michael
- Pamuk, Orhan
- Pan, Cindy
- Panizza, Oskar
- Paris, Erna
- Park, Ruth
- Parker, Idella
- Parkes, Nii Ayikwei
- Parks, Tim
- Parra, Nicanor
- Pasternak, Boris
- Pastior, Oskar
- Patchen, Kenneth
- Paton, Alan
- Patrick, Vincent
- Patterson, Richard North
- Patterson, Rosemary
- Paul, Barbara
- Payne, C. D.
- Paz, Octavio
- Peacock, Thomas Love
- Pearson, Carol Lynn
- Péguy, Charles
- Pekin, Paul
- Pellicer, Carlos
- Pendleton, Don
- Pendleton, Linda
- Percy, Walker
- Pereira, Sam
- Pérez-Reverte, Arturo
- Perutz, Leo
- Peshkin, Alan
- Pessoa, Fernando
- Peters, G. D.
- Pfefferle, W. T.
- Phelan, Tom
- Philips, Katherine
- Phillips, Caryl
- Phipps, Wanda
- Piazza, Tom
- Pickover, Clifford A.
- Picoult, Jodi
- Piercy, Marge
- Pilcher, Rosamunde
- Pinsky, Robert
- Pinter, Harold
- Pirsig, Robert M.
- Piven, Josh
- Pizarnik, Alejandra
- Pla, Josep
- Plath, Sylvia
- Platt, Randall
- Plimpton, George
- Plumly, Stanley
- Plunkett, Joseph Mary
- Polidori, John William
- Pollack, Mindy
- Ponge, Francis
- Pontoppidan, Henrik
- Pope, Alexander
- Porter, Peter
- Post, Emily
- Potok, Chaim
- Potter, Sanedria
- Powell, Dawn
- Powers, J. F.
- Powers, Richard
- Powers, Tim
- Prassinos, Gisèle
- Price, Richard
- Pride, Regina
- Priestley, J. B.
- Pritchett, V. S.
- Proulx, E. Annie
- Proust, Marcel
- Prutkov, Kozma
- Prynne, J. H.
- Pullman, Philip
- Puzo, Mario
- Pym, Barbara
- Pynchon, Thomas
Also see:
- ..Paine, Thomas(2)
- ..Park, Tony(1)
- ..Parker, Dorothy(1)
- ..Patterson, James(1)
- ..Peake, Mervyn(2)
- ..Persky, Stan(1)
- ..Petrarca, Francesco(1)
- ..Pierce, Tamora(1)
- ..Piper, H. Beam(1)
- ..Pitt, Ingrid(1)
- ..Plato(2)
- ..Plutarch(1)
- ..Poe, Edgar Allan(10)
- ..Pohl, Frederik(1)
- ..Poquelin, Jean-Baptiste(2)
- ..Potter, Beatrix(2)
- ..Pratchett, Terry(11)