1740–1821), Scottish poet Karen A. Page (born 1962), US food writer Elaine Pagels (born 1943), US religious historian and writer; The Gnostic Gospels Camille Paglia (born 1947), US feminist essayist; Sexual Personae Charlotte Painter (born 1926), US novelist and writer Marina Palei (born 1955), Russian writer; Rendezvous Grace Paley (1922–2007), US short story writer, poet and activist Nettie Palmer (1885–1964), Australian poet, essayist and literary critic Kirsti Paltto (born 1947), Sámi playwright, short story and children's writer Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928), English feminist activist, speaker and autobiography writer Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960), English suffragist, poet Vera Panova (1905–1973), Soviet fiction writer; Seryozha Sara Paretsky (born 1947), US mystery novelist Dorothy Parker (1893–1967), US poet, critic and short story writer Una-Mary Parker (born 1930), English journalist and novelist Adele Parks (born 1969), English fiction writer Suzan-Lori Parks (born 1964), US playwright and screenwriter Sophia Parnok (1885–1933), Russian Silver Age poet Catherine Parr (born 1512), Queen of England from 1543 to 1547, spouse of King Henry VIII Anne Parrish (1888–1957), US children's novelist Mona Parsa (born 1982), US author Sarah Willis Parton (Fanny Fern, 1811–1872), US novelist, columnist and children's writer Vesna Parun (1922–2010), Croatian poet Ann Patchett (born 1963), US novelist; Bel Canto Shailja Patel (living), Kenyan poet, playwright Evelyn Patuawa-Nathan (living), New Zealand Māori writer Irene Levine Paull (1908–1981), US writer and labor activist Karolina Pavlova (1807–1893), Russian writer; A Double Life Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (1891–1945), Polish poet Edith Pearlman (born 1936), US short story and non-fiction writer Laura Pedersen (born 1965), US author, humorist and playwright; The Brightness of Heaven Erica Pedretti (born 1930), Czechoslovak-born Swiss writer in German Inês Pedrosa (born 1962), Portuguese journalist, fiction writer and playwright Janet Peery (born 1948), US fiction writer Kira Peikoff (born 1987), US thriller writer Kathleen Peirce (born 1956), US poet Louise Penny (born 1958), Canadian mystery novelist Emily Pepys (1833–1877), English child diarist (1844–45) Jennifer Percy (living), US writer Charmaine Pereira (living), Nigerian non-fiction writer Ana Mercedes Perez (born 1910), Venezuelan poet, writer and translator Aşıq Pəri (also as Ashiq Peri, c. 1811–c. 1847) Azerbaijani lyric poet Olga Perovskaya (1902–1961), Soviet children's literature writer Perpetua (died AD 203), Roman African writer of a prison diary, The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity Julia Peterkin (1880–1961), US fiction writer; 1929 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Elizabeth Peters (born 1927), US mystery novelist; Amelia Peabody Ellis Peters (1913–1995), Welsh-English mystery fiction writer and translator; Brother Cadfael Marine Petrossian (born 1960), Armenian poet, essayist and columnist Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (born 1938), Russian writer and dramatist; Immortal Love Ann Petry (1908–1997), US journalist and fiction writer Sophie Petzal (born 1990), English screenwriter Katherine Philips (1631–1664), English poet Jayne Anne Phillips (born 1952), US fiction writer Phintys (or Phyntis, 4th or 3rd century BC), Greek philosopher Ife Piankhi (living), Uganda-born poet, singer and educator Karoline Pichler (also Caroline, 1769–1843), Austrian novelist; Agathocles Jodi Picoult (born 1966), US novelist Meredith Ann Pierce (born 1958), US fantasy writer Tamora Pierce (born 1954), US children's novelist; Alanna of Trebond Marge Piercy (born 1936), US poet, novelist, and social activist Rosamunde Pilcher (1924–2019), English romance fiction writer; The Shell Seekers Florencia del Pinar (15th century), Spanish poet Winsome Pinnock (born 1961), British playwright Ruth Pitter (1897–1992), English poet; first woman to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, in 1955 Mary Pix (1666–1709), English novelist and playwright Christine de Pizan (1364–1430), Venetian feminist poet and rhetorician in French; The Book of the City of Ladies Alejandra Pizarnik (1936–1972), Argentine poet Tamri Pkhakadze (born 1957) Georgian novelist and children's writer Josefina Pla (1903–1999), Spanish poet, playwright and painter Sylvia Plath (1932–1963), US poet, fiction writer and essayist; 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (posthumous) Ann Plato (born c.