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Gender: Female
Hometown: Leningrad
Number of works: 15
Paullina Simons was born in Leningrad, USSR, in 1963. At the age of ten her family immigrated to the United States. Growing up in Russia Paullina dreamt of someday becoming a writer. Her dream was put on hold as she learned English and overcame the shock of a new culture. After graduating from uni......
Paullina Simons is the author of following books:
Hometown: Leningrad
Number of works: 15
Paullina Simons was born in Leningrad, USSR, in 1963. At the age of ten her family immigrated to the United States. Growing up in Russia Paullina dreamt of someday becoming a writer. Her dream was put on hold as she learned English and overcame the shock of a new culture. After graduating from uni......
Paullina Simons is the author of following books:
- - The Bronze Horseman (Tatiana and Alexander, #1)
- - Tatiana and Alexander (Tatiana and Alexander, #2)
- - The Summer Garden (Tatiana and Alexander, #3)
- - Tully
- - The Girl in Times Square
- - Red Leaves
- - Eleven Hours
- - Road to Paradise
- - A Song in the Daylight
- - Tatiana's Table: Tatiana and Alexander's Life of Food and Love

Gender: Male
Hometown: Blora (on island of Java)
Born at: 1925-02-06
Died at: 2006-04-30
Number of works: 51
Pramoedya Ananta Toer was an Indonesian author of novels, short stories, essays, polemics, and histories of his homeland and its people. A well-regarded writer in the West, Pramoedya's outspoken and often politically charged writings faced censorship in his native land during the pre-reformation era......
Pramoedya Ananta Toer is the author of following books:
Hometown: Blora (on island of Java)
Born at: 1925-02-06
Died at: 2006-04-30
Number of works: 51
Pramoedya Ananta Toer was an Indonesian author of novels, short stories, essays, polemics, and histories of his homeland and its people. A well-regarded writer in the West, Pramoedya's outspoken and often politically charged writings faced censorship in his native land during the pre-reformation era......
Pramoedya Ananta Toer is the author of following books:

Gender: Male
Hometown: Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire
Born at: 1914-12-12
Died at: 2000-01-02
Number of works: 74
Patrick O'Brian, CBE (born as Richard Patrick Russ) was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and centered on the friendship of English Naval Captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish–Catalan physician Step......
Patrick O'brian is the author of following books:
Hometown: Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire
Born at: 1914-12-12
Died at: 2000-01-02
Number of works: 74
Patrick O'Brian, CBE (born as Richard Patrick Russ) was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and centered on the friendship of English Naval Captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish–Catalan physician Step......
Patrick O'brian is the author of following books:
- - Master and Commander (Aubrey/Maturin, #1)
- - Post Captain (Aubrey/Maturin #2)
- - H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey/Maturin #3)
- - The Mauritius Command (Aubrey/Maturin, #4)
- - Desolation Island (Aubrey/Maturin, #5)
- - The Fortune of War (Aubrey/Maturin, #6)
- - The Surgeon's Mate (Aubrey/Maturin, #7)
- - The Far Side of the World (Aubrey/Maturin, #10)
- - The Letter of Marque (Aubrey/Maturin #12)
- - Treason's Harbour (Aubrey/Maturin, #9)

Gender: Female
Hometown: Unkown
Born at: 1920-08-03
Number of works: 93
P. D. James is the author of twenty books, most of which have been filmed and broadcast on television in the United States and other countries. She spent thirty years in various departments of the British Civil Service, including the Police and Criminal Law Department of Great Britain's Home Office.......
P.d. James is the author of following books:
Hometown: Unkown
Born at: 1920-08-03
Number of works: 93
P. D. James is the author of twenty books, most of which have been filmed and broadcast on television in the United States and other countries. She spent thirty years in various departments of the British Civil Service, including the Police and Criminal Law Department of Great Britain's Home Office.......
P.d. James is the author of following books:
- - The Children of Men
- - Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh, #1)
- - The Lighthouse (Adam Dalgliesh, #13)
- - Death In Holy Orders (Adam Dalgliesh, #11)
- - An Unsuitable Job For A Woman
- - The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14)
- - The Murder Room (Adam Dalgliesh, #12)
- - Shroud For A Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh, #4)
- - A Taste For Death (Adam Dalgliesh, #7)
- - A Certain Justice (Adam Dalgliesh, #10)

Gender: Male
Hometown: Salem, Oregon
Born at: 1966-02-27
Number of works: 35
Patrick Carman is an American author of The Land of Elyon series and the Atherton series. A graduate of Willamette University with a degree in economics, he became an author after a career as an entrepreneur. He lives in the wilderness of Walla Walla, Washington, with his wife and two daughters.His ......
Patrick Carman is the author of following books:
Hometown: Salem, Oregon
Born at: 1966-02-27
Number of works: 35
Patrick Carman is an American author of The Land of Elyon series and the Atherton series. A graduate of Willamette University with a degree in economics, he became an author after a career as an entrepreneur. He lives in the wilderness of Walla Walla, Washington, with his wife and two daughters.His ......
Patrick Carman is the author of following books:
- - The Black Circle (39 Clues, #5)
- - The Dark Hills Divide (The Land of Elyon #1)
- - Beyond the Valley of Thorns (The Land of Elyon #2)
- - Tenth City (The Land Of Elyon #3)
- - Skeleton Creek (Skeleton Creek, #1)
- - The House of Power (Atherton, #1)
- - Into The Mist (Land of Elyon #4)
- - Stargazer (The Land of Elyon #5)
- - Ghost In The Machine (Skeleton Creek, #2)
- - Thirteen Days to Midnight

Gender: Female
Hometown: Unkown
Number of works: 17
Pamela Palmer is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Feral Warriors shape-shifter series, the Esri Series, and (coming in 2012) the Vamp City series. Raised in an Air Force family, Pamela lived in eleven different houses by the time she was fourteen. The two constants in her l......
Pamela Palmer is the author of following books:
Hometown: Unkown
Number of works: 17
Pamela Palmer is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Feral Warriors shape-shifter series, the Esri Series, and (coming in 2012) the Vamp City series. Raised in an Air Force family, Pamela lived in eleven different houses by the time she was fourteen. The two constants in her l......
Pamela Palmer is the author of following books:
- - Desire Untamed (Feral Warriors, #1)
- - Obsession Untamed (Feral Warriors, #2)
- - Passion Untamed (Feral Warriors, #3)
- - Rapture Untamed (Feral Warriors, #4)
- - Hunger Untamed (Feral Warriors, #5)
- - Ecstasy Untamed (Feral Warriors, #6)
- - The Dark Gate (The Esri, #1) (Harlequin Nocturne, #13)
- - Dark Deceiver (The Esri, # 2) (Harlequin Nocturne, #42)
- - A Blood Seduction: A Vamp City Novel
- - A Warrior's Desire (Nocturne)

Gender: Male
Hometown: Ambach, Bavaria
Born at: 1949-03-26
Number of works: 17
From 1968-1974 he studied medieval and modern history in Munich and Aix-en-Provence. In the '80s he worked as a screenwriter, for Kir Royal and Monaco Franze among others. After spending the 1970s writing what he has characterized as “short unpublished prose pieces and longer un-produced screenp......
Patrick Süskind is the author of following books:
Hometown: Ambach, Bavaria
Born at: 1949-03-26
Number of works: 17
From 1968-1974 he studied medieval and modern history in Munich and Aix-en-Provence. In the '80s he worked as a screenwriter, for Kir Royal and Monaco Franze among others. After spending the 1970s writing what he has characterized as “short unpublished prose pieces and longer un-produced screenp......
Patrick Süskind is the author of following books:

Gender: Female
Hometown: Hillsboro, West Virginia
Born at: 1892-06-26
Died at: 1973-03-06
Number of works: 185
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938 "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces" and the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1932 for The Good Earth. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wi......
Pearl S. Buck is the author of following books:
Hometown: Hillsboro, West Virginia
Born at: 1892-06-26
Died at: 1973-03-06
Number of works: 185
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938 "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces" and the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1932 for The Good Earth. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wi......
Pearl S. Buck is the author of following books:

Gender: Female
Hometown: Fort Worth, Texas
Born at: 1921-01-19
Died at: 1995-02-04
Number of works: 138
Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist who is known mainly for her psychological crime thrillers which have led to more than two dozen film adaptations over the years. She lived with her grandmother, mother and later step-father (her mother divorced her natural father six months before 'Patsy......
Patricia Highsmith is the author of following books:
Hometown: Fort Worth, Texas
Born at: 1921-01-19
Died at: 1995-02-04
Number of works: 138
Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist who is known mainly for her psychological crime thrillers which have led to more than two dozen film adaptations over the years. She lived with her grandmother, mother and later step-father (her mother divorced her natural father six months before 'Patsy......
Patricia Highsmith is the author of following books:
- - The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
- - Strangers on a Train
- - The Price of Salt
- - Ripley's Game (Ripley, #3)
- - Ripley Under Ground (Ripley, #2)
- - The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game
- - The Boy Who Followed Ripley (Ripley, #4)
- - Ripley Under Water (Ripley, #5)
- - The Selected Stories
- - Deep Water

Gender: Female
Hometown: Anderson, Indiana
Born at: 1933-01-04
Number of works: 187
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor was born in Anderson, Indiana, US on January 4, 1933. Her family were strongly religious with conservative, midwestern values and most of her childhood was spent moving a lot due to her father's occupation as a salesman. Though she grew up during the Depression and her fami......
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor is the author of following books:
Hometown: Anderson, Indiana
Born at: 1933-01-04
Number of works: 187
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor was born in Anderson, Indiana, US on January 4, 1933. Her family were strongly religious with conservative, midwestern values and most of her childhood was spent moving a lot due to her father's occupation as a salesman. Though she grew up during the Depression and her fami......
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor is the author of following books:
