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- Arturo Pérez-Reverte (born 1951)
- William Palmer (born 1943)
- Edith Pargeter (1913–1995)
- Walter Pater (1839-1894)
- Anna Percival (1906–1993), pseudonym of Eleanor Hibbert
- Borislav Pekic (1930–1992)
- Elizabeth Peters (born 1927)
- Ellis Peters (1913–1995)
- Sharon Penman (born 1945)
- Stef Penney (born 1969)
- Anne Perry (born 1938)
- Leo Perutz (1882-1957)
- Jean Plaidy (1906–1993), pseudonym of Eleanor Hibbert
- Dudley Pope (1925–1997)
- Jane Porter (1776-1850)
- Steven Pressfield (born 1943)
- HFM Prescott (1896–1972)
- Linda Proud (born 1949)
- Bolesław Prus (1847–1912
- Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837)
- Thomas Pynchon (born 1937)
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