Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on August 4, 1792. He was a famous English Romantic poet. Biography and Career : An aristocrat by birth, Shelley never the less had radical ideas....

Patrick White

Patrick White (1912-1990) was born in London, he settled in Australia in the 1940s. Short Biography: His novels (with allegorical overtones) include The Aunt's Story in 1948...

Paula Boyd

Paula Boyd--author of the award-winning Jolene Jackson Mystery Series is a famous writer of modern era. Biography and Career: Paula Boyd grew up in a small town called Holliday...

Philippe Claudel

Philippe Claudel was born on February 2, 1962 in France. He is a famous writer and a director. He won 3 awards including BAFTA Film Award in his career. He is best known for his novel...

Peter Shaffer

Peter Shaffer (born in 1926) plays include Five Finger Exercise in 1958, the historical epic "The Royal Hunt of the Sun" in 1964, "Equus" in 1973, and "Amadeus" in 1979 about the composer...

Pietro Aretino

Pietro Aratino (1492-1556) was an Italian writer, born in Arezzo, Italy. Short Biography: He earned his living, both in Rome and Venice, by publishing satirical pamphlets while...

Philip Roth

Philip Roth (born in 1933) books include Goodbye Columbus in 1959; Portnoy's Complaint in 1969; and a series of novels about a writer, Nathan Zuckerman, including The Ghost Writer in...

Pat Neely

Patricia Neely-Dorsey (Pat) is from Tupelo, MS. She is a 1982 graduate of Tupelo High School and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts....

P. C. Wren

Percival Christopher Wren (1885-1941) was drawing on his experiences in the French and Indian armies, he wrote martial adventure novels including Beau Geste in 1924, dealing with the...

Paul Eluard

Pen name of Eugene Grindel (1895-1952) was a French poet, born in Paris. He expressed the suffering of poverty in his verse, and was a leader of the Surrealists. Short Biography...

Prosper Merimee

Prosper Merimee (1803-1870) was a French author. Short Biography: Among his works are the stories Colombo (1841), Carmen (1846), and the Lettres a une inconnue/Letters to an...

Petre Ispirescu

Petre Ispirescu was born in January, 1830 in Bucharest, Romania. He was an editor, writer, printer and publicist. Biography and Career : His parents were Elena and Gheorghe Ispirescu....

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) writings (making much use of first Friulan and later Roman dialect) include the novels Ragazzi di vita/The Ragazzi in 1955 and Una vita violenta/A Violent...

Patricia Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was an American crime novelist. Short Biography: Her first book Strangers on a Train (1950) was filmed by Hitchcock, and she excels in tension...

Petre Raileanu

Petre Raileanu - literary critic and historian, essayist. Born on April 13th 1951 in Braila. After graduating “Nicolae Balcescu” secondary school in Braila, he graduated from the Faculty...

Par Lagerkvist

Par Lagerkvist (full name Pi¤r Fabian Lagerkvist) was born on May 23, 1891 in Vaxjo, Sweden. He was a Swedish author who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951. Biography...

Pierre Galante

Pierre Galante was a famous writer.Pierre Galante died on Friday, September 25, 1998.Pierre dated Olivia de Havilland.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681) was a Spanish dramatist and poet. Short Biography: After the death of Lope de Vega, he was considered to be the leading Spanish dramatist....

Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges was born on August 29, 1898. He was a screenwriter of outstanding credibility. He had good name as a film director too. Biography and Career: Sturges was born...

P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975) humorous novels portray the accident-prone world of such characters as the socialite Bertie Wooster and his invaluable and impeccable manservant...

Phyllis McGinley

Phyllis McGinley (1905-1978) was a Canadian-born American writer of light verse. Short Biography: She became a contributor to the New Yorker magazine and published many collections...

Plutarch

Plutarch (c. AD 46-120) lectured on philosophy at Rome, and was appointed procurator of Greece by Hadrian. Short Biography: His Parallel Lives comprise biographies of pairs of...

Petre Barbu

Petre Barbu - prose writer and playwright. Also journalist. Born on July 20, 1962 in Galaţi. Son of workers. He graduated in 1988 from the Faculty of Mechanics of the...

Pedro Antonio de Alarcon

Pedro Antonio de Alarcon, 1833-1891. Short Biography: He was a Spanish journalist and writer. The acclaimed Diario / Diary was based upon his experiences as a soldier in Morocco....