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Oliver Sacks

British neurologist and author whose humane case histories explore perception, memory, identity and the many ways people adapt to neurological conditions.

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Oscar Hokeah

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Patrick Leigh Fermor

British travel writer, soldier and scholar whose richly observed books join journeys with history, language and memoir. He is best known for A Time of Gifts and his writing on Greece.

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Patrick Parrinder

Patrick Parrinder is a British literary critic and retired Reading professor. He is a leading authority on H. G. Wells and early science fiction, and he edited the Penguin Classics edition of The Invisible Man.

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Patrick Radden Keefe

American investigative journalist and New Yorker staff writer whose narrative nonfiction examines political violence, organized crime, secrecy and institutional power.

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Patrick Rothfuss

Patrick Rothfuss is an American fantasy author best known for The Kingkiller Chronicle, which begins with The Name of the Wind.

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Paul Beatty

Paul Beatty is an American novelist and poet known for darkly comic, formally daring writing about race, language and American public life.

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Paul Kalanithi

Paul Kalanithi was an American neurosurgeon and writer whose memoir, When Breath Becomes Air, examines medicine, mortality and the search for a meaningful life.

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Paul Theroux

American novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux is known for keenly observed journeys by rail and fiction about outsiders, ambition and cultural collision.

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Pauline Nestor

Pauline Nestor is an Australian literary scholar of Victorian women writers, especially the Brontës, Eliot and Gaskell. She edited the Penguin Classics Wuthering Heights and wrote its introduction and notes.

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Paulo Coelho

Brazilian novelist and former song lyricist, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1947. He writes spiritual, parable-like fiction about following a personal calling, and is best known for The Alchemist.

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Paulo Freire

Brazilian educator and writer Paulo Freire transformed debates about literacy, power and teaching. His books argue for education built through dialogue, critical reflection and action.

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