Authors whose first name starts with P, page 6 of 7

Peter Telep is an American author, screenwriter and teacher, born in 1965, who has written more than 50 books and collaborated with Tom Clancy. Military fiction is the main strand: the United States Marine Corps, terrorism, search and rescue, and men's adventure recur as subjects, and Ghost Recon and Splinter Cell appear among the character entries. This catalogue holds 34 titles published between 1995 and 2017, from Space: Above and Beyond (1995) to Doc Harrison and the Prophecy of Halsparr (2017). Force 5 Recon, Armored Corps, the Squire Trilogy, Scott St. Andrew, Night Angel 9, Special Forces Afghanistan, Secret Corps and Doc Harrison are the listed series. Telep teaches at the University of Central Florida.

Peter Temple

11 books• 2 series

Peter Temple was an Australian crime novelist, known mainly for the Jack Irish series. Bad Debts opened the catalogue in 1996, and Black Tide (2000), Dead Point (2000) and White Dog (2004) followed. The Broken Shore arrived in 2005 and named a second series. Temple took the Gold Dagger in 2007, the first Australian to do so, and worked as a magazine and newspaper journalist and editor. Private investigators, crime and Australian settings define the books, and eleven titles make up the catalogue through The Red Hand in 2020.

Peter Tremayne

67 books• 3 series

Peter Tremayne is a pseudonym of Peter Berresford Ellis, a British historian, literary biographer and novelist born on 10 March 1943. Ellis has published more than 98 books under that name and as Peter Tremayne and Peter MacAlan, along with 100 short stories, and the work has appeared in 25 languages. As Tremayne, Ellis writes the Sister Fidelma historical mysteries, an international bestseller. The catalogue lists 67 titles from 1974 to 2026, opening with The Cornish Language and its Literature, issued under the Ellis name. Dracula Unborn and Hound of Frankenstein (both 1977) follow, and Blood on the Wind (2026) is the newest. Nuns, the Celtic Church, Ireland and horror appear in the subject tags.

Peter Turnbull writes police procedurals. 48 catalogued books run from Deep and Crisp and Even (1981) to Cold Wrath (2018), across three series: Hennessey & Yellich, Harry Vicary and Maurice Mundy. George Hennessey and Somerled Yellich are the recurring detectives, and England and Scotland are both settings across the run. Turnbull, born in Rotherham in 1950, studied at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology, at Huddersfield and at Cardiff, and worked as a social worker for Strathclyde Regional Council in Glasgow from 1978 to 1995.

Peter Turner is the name on 19 catalogued books published between 1985 and 2020, and the listing gathers several distinct subject areas rather than one body of work. Photography accounts for American Images: Photography 1945-1980 (1985) and History of Photography (1987). Travel guidebooks form a second group, among them Singapore City Guide (1991) and Lonely Planet South East Asia (1994), with Lonely Planet and Paul Hellander appearing as co-credits. Film writing accounts for Found Footage Horror Films (2020). Recorded subjects across the listing include photography, travel, biography and history.

Peter V. Brett

18 books• 3 series

Peter V. Brett, born February 8, 1973, is an American fantasy novelist and the author of the Demon Cycle. The first Demon Cycle volume appeared in 2008 under two titles: The Painted Man from HarperCollins's Voyager imprint in the UK and The Warded Man from Del Rey Books in the US. The catalogue lists 18 Brett books, including The Desert Spear (2010) and The Daylight War (2013), with The Demon King (2026) the newest. Red Sonja: Unchained and Nightfall Saga are also listed, and the subjects include epic fantasy, demonology and magic.

Peter Wacht writes fantasy for young adult readers. The Sylvan Chronicles opens the catalogue in 2019 with The Legend of the Kestrel, The Makings of a Warrior, The Raptor of the Highlands and The Call of the Sylvana, and runs on through The Claiming of the Highlands, The Lord of the Highlands and The Lost Kestrel Found in 2020. Five further series follow: Tales of Caledonia, the Fallen Knight, the Legend of the Dragon Lord, Tales of the Territories and the Tragedy of the Blackgards. Thirty-five books are catalogued through Rise of the Dragon Lord (2026).

Peter Wartman works in graphic novels and is credited on 8 catalogued titles published between 2020 and 2024. Faith Erin Hicks shares the credit on 4 of them and Adele Matera on 4. One series is attached to the run, Avatar: The Last Airbender Comics. Katara and the Pirate's Silver and Through the Moon are dated 2020, Suki, Alone and Toph Beifong's Metalbending Academy 2021, Bloodmoon Huntress 2022, Azula in the Spirit Temple and Puzzle House 2023, and Dreamer's Nightmare 2024. Four titles carry page counts, at a median of 128.

Peter Watt writes Australian historical fiction built around frontier and pioneer life, family and war. Cry of the Curlew (2000) is the first of 24 books, followed by Shadow of the Osprey the same year and Flight of the Eagle (2002). The Colonial and Papua Trilogy series sit in the catalogue, and both World Wars appear in the subjects. Watt has kept a pace of about one novel a year, at a median of 392 pages, and The Ghosts of August (2024) is the latest. Peter Watt's books are also linked to the Frontier listing.

Peter Watts

15 books• 3 series

Peter Watts is a Canadian author of hard science fiction, born January 25, 1958. Watts earned a Ph.D. in 1991 from the University of British Columbia's Department of Zoology and Resource Ecology, went on to academic research and teaching posts, and worked as a marine-mammal biologist; fiction publication began around the end of graduate school. The catalogue lists 15 books from 1994 to 2026, among them Starfish (1999), Maelstrom (2001), Blindsight (2006) and Fold Catastrophes (2026). Rifters and Firefall are the series credited to Watts.

Peter Wohlleben

12 books• 1 series

Peter Wohlleben is a German forester and author who writes about ecology in popular language, and who has argued, controversially, for plant sentience. The Hidden Life of Trees (2015) reached the New York Times bestseller list and appeared in English in 2016. Twelve books are catalogued between 2012 and 2022, from The Weather Detective (2012) to Forest Walking (2022), among them The Inner Life of Animals (2016), The Secret Wisdom of Nature (2017), The Heartbeat of Trees (2019) and The Power of Trees (2021). Mysteries of Nature is the one series catalogued, and trees, forests, symbiosis and food chains are the constants.

Petra Durst-Benning writes historical fiction set in Germany. Glass blowing, glassworkers, the seed industry of the 1850s, sisters and New York State run through the recorded subjects. Three series stand in the catalogue: Glassblower, Seed Traders Saga and Photographer's Saga. Ten books are listed from The Glassblower (2000) to An Artificial Light (2020), taking in The American Lady (2003), The Seed Woman (2005), The Paradise of Glass (2007), While the World is Still Asleep (2012), The Champagne Queen (2013) and The Queen of Beauty (2015).

Peyton Corinne writes hockey romance set around college sport. The Undone series opens with Unsteady (2023) and continues through Unloved (2025), Unbound (2026) and Undone (2026). Friends-to-lovers plots, flawed characters, hurt and comfort, and an eventual happy ending mark the books. Corinne wrote from an early age before publishing, and the series remains open.

Phaedra Patrick writes contemporary fiction about ordinary people changing course, widowers and the people around them included. The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper (2016) opens the catalogue, followed by Rise & Shine, Benedict Stone (2017), The Library of Lost and Found (2019), The Secrets of Love Story Bridge (2020) and The Messy Lives of Book People (2022). Self-realisation and humour run through them. Eight titles are catalogued, reaching The Time Hop Coffee Shop in 2025.

Phil Foglio works in comics and graphic novels. Girl Genius, with its woman scientist at the centre, runs across three of the catalogued series, and Buck Godot, What's New and the adult XXXenophile Collection account for most of the rest. Foglio's 38 titles start with Myth Adventures One in 1984 and end with Volume 5: Sparks and Monsters in 2021, at a median of 112 pages. Science fiction, fantasy and romance all feed the work.

Suspense fiction about murder and families fills the catalogue of Phil M. Williams, which counts 27 books from 2015 to 2026. The first title is Against the Grain (2015), and the newest is Ashes to Ashes (2026). Williams writes the 2050 and Evil Intentions series alongside standalone thrillers such as Stone Lake (2015), The Predator Hunter (2018) and What Happened at the Lake (2018).

Phil Rickman wrote supernatural and mystery novels, publishing under the pen names Will Kingdom and Thom Madley as well as his own. Merrily Watkins, a woman priest in England, is the recurring figure, and exorcism, ghosts and the occult run through those books. 30 catalogued titles span Candlenight (1991) to The Echo of Crows (2026), among them The Wine of Angels (1998), Midwinter of the Spirit (1999) and A Crown of Lights (2001). The John Dee Papers and the Grayle Underhill and Bobby Maiden novels sit alongside. Rickman, born in 1950, died in 2024.

Phil Stamper writes for young adults, and the catalogue files the books under children's fiction and LGBTQ young adult. Eight titles carry the Stamper credit, opening with The Gravity of Us (2020) and reaching Judy Garland & Liza Minnelli (2026). Gravity of Us and Golden Boys each name a series in the listing. After the Launch (2021), As Far as You'll Take Me (2021), Small Town Pride (2022), Afterglow (2023) and Billy Porter (2025) fill the run. Stamper continues to publish, with the newest catalogued title dated 2026.

Phil Truman writes westerns and historical fiction, with Oklahoma recorded among the subjects. Nine books are catalogued, opening with a book about writing humor in 2002 and reaching Winter Ghost (2026). Three series stand under the name: Legends of Tsalagee, West of the Deadline and Jubal Smoak Mysteries. Treasure Kills (2011), Red Lands Outlaw (2012), Game (2017), Tales of an Indian Territory Lawman (2017), Tales of Lawman Bass Reeves (2017), Dire Wolf of the Quapaw (2018) and Murders of the Sixth Kind (2021) make up the rest.

Phil Tucker writes fantasy across several series. The Chronicles of the Black Gate, which includes The Black Shriving (2016) and The Empire of the Dead (2016), sits alongside Euphoria Online, Dawn of the Void, Skadi's Saga, the Godsblood Trilogy, Immortal Great Souls, Human Revolt and Throne Hunters. The earlier work is horror and urban fantasy: Crude Sunlight (2012), Vampire Miami (2012), Vampire LA (2013). The catalogue holds 36 books, the newest Throne Hunters 5 (2026).

Phil Ward is the author of the Raiding Forces series, with 20 books catalogued from 2010 to 2026. Those Who Dare (2010) is the first title, followed by Dead Eagles (2011), Blood Wings (2012) and Guerrilla Command (2013). Later titles include Desert Patrol (2015), Africa 1941 (2016) and The Sharp End (2017). Stand To! (2026) is the newest, and Ward is still publishing.

Philip C. Quaintrell writes across four series: the Echoes Saga, the Terran Cycle, A Time of Dragons and the Ranger Archives. Intrinsic (2016) opens the catalogue, and Rise of the Ranger (2017), Relic of the Gods (2018), The Fall of Neverdark (2018), Age of the King (2019) and Kingdom of Bones (2019) follow. 21 books reach Tides of Blood and War (2026). Volumes run long, at a median of 579 pages, and Quaintrell remains actively publishing.

Philip Carlo (1949-2010) was an American journalist and biographer whose subjects included Thomas Pitera, Richard Kuklinski, Anthony Casso and Richard Ramirez. Carlo received a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in 2005, used a wheelchair and a respirator, kept the ability to speak, and went on writing until death in November 2010. Nine books are catalogued, from Stolen Flower (1986) to Lollipop (2013), taking in The Night Stalker (1996), Predators & Prayers (2005), Smiling Wolf (2006), The Ice Man (2006), Gaspipe (2009), The Butcher (2009) and The Killer Within (2010). Recorded subjects include true crime stories, serial murderers, priests and New York.

Philip E. High wrote science fiction, with 21 catalogued titles from Mumbo-Jumbo Man (1960) to The Psi Squad (2020). No Truce With Terra and The Prodigal Sun both date from 1964, and Reality Forbidden, These Savage Futurians and Twin Planets from 1967. Philip Empson High was an English author who lived from 1914 to 2006. The catalogue is considered likely complete.

Philip Fracassi is an American author of horror, thrillers and science fiction who also writes screenplays. Fracassi has received nominations for the Bram Stoker Award and the British Fantasy Award. Behold the Void (2017) and Beneath a Pale Sky (2021) are story collections, and Gothic and Boys in the Valley are among his novels. The catalogue lists 21 books up to Sarafina (2026), at a median of 103 pages.

Philip Friedman appears in the catalogue with 14 books spanning Rage (1972) to Wall of Silence (2017). Titles include Reasonable Doubt (1990), Inadmissible Evidence (1992) and Grand Jury (1996). Subject tags list legal stories, murder trials, evidence law, lawyers, drug trafficking and New York, with Michael Ryan and Joe Estrada as fictitious characters. William Kendall is the series named on the author record.

Philip Gulley writes about Quaker life in Indiana, in essays and in fiction. Front Porch Tales (1997) opens a catalogue of 24 books, and the Harmony novels, Home to Harmony (2000), Just Shy of Harmony (2001), Christmas in Harmony (2002), build a small town around a Quaker congregation. Christian life, clergy and universalism run through the subjects, and nothing later than 2018 is catalogued.

Venice holds Philip Gwynne Jones's fiction. Nathan Sutherland, a consul, investigates across a series whose titles almost all name the city: The Venetian Game (2017), The Venetian Masquerade (2019), Vengeance in Venice (2019), Venetian Gothic (2020), The Angels of Venice (2022) and The Venetian Sanctuary (2024). Eleven books are catalogued from The Venice Project (2013) to 2025. Murder investigation, travel and Venetian social life are the recorded subjects.

Philip José Farmer

86 books• 13 series

Philip José Farmer was an American science fiction and fantasy writer who lived from January 26, 1918 to February 25, 2009. Farmer is best known for two novel sequences, World of Tiers (1965–93) and Riverworld (1971–83). The work is noted for early use of sexual and religious themes, for reworking the lore of pulp heroes, and for occasional pseudonymous books presented as if written by fictional characters. The catalogue lists 86 Farmer books, opening with Queen of the Deep (1954) and including The Green Odyssey (1957), Flesh (1960) and The Lovers (1961). Other series include Dayworld, Herald Childe and Opar.

Philip K. Allan has 15 books in the catalogue, published between 2018 and 2026. The Captain's Nephew (2018) is recorded as the first title, and A Man of No Country, A Sloop of War and On The Lee Shore also date from 2018. The catalogue lists two series, Alexander Clay and Wolves. In Northern Seas, The Distant Ocean and The Turn of the Tide came out in 2019, and Larcum Mudge and Sea of Wolves in 2020. Upon the Malabar Coast followed in 2021. Clay and the Sublime Porte (2026) is the newest, and Allan is still publishing.

Philip K. Dick

86 books• 4 series

Philip K. Dick (December 16, 1928 to March 2, 1982) was an American science fiction novelist and short story writer. Dick wrote 45 novels and roughly 121 short stories, most of them first published in science fiction magazines. The fiction asks what is real and probes perception, identity and human nature. Characters in Dick's work contend with alternate realities, illusory worlds, monopoly corporations, drug abuse, authoritarian states and altered consciousness. Dick ranks among the most important figures in 20th-century science fiction. Catalogued titles include Beyond Lies the Wub (1951), Paycheck (1953) and Adjustment Team (1954), and the VALIS Trilogy appears as a series. Androids and life on other planets feature in the subject tags.

Philip Kerr

39 books• 5 series

Bernie Gunther, a private investigator, is the figure Philip Kerr is known for. That sequence opens with March Violets (1989), The Pale Criminal (1990) and A German Requiem (1991), and the Second World War runs through its subjects. Kerr's catalogue holds 39 books, reaching Metropolis (2019), and takes in the Scott Manson novels, standalone thrillers and the Children Of The Lamp series written as P.B. Kerr.

Philip Margolin appears in this catalogue with two short stories rather than novels: The Girl in the Yellow Bikini (1974) and Angie's Delight (1998). Both sit in a short stories and novellas grouping, and no other title is recorded against the name here.

Philip Matyszak is a British non-fiction author, born in 1958, who writes mainly about ancient Rome. The 38 catalogued books begin with Imperial General (2001) and include Chronicle of the Roman Republic (2003), The Enemies of Rome (2004), Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day (2007), Ancient Athens on 5 Drachmas a Day (2008) and Mithridates the Great (2008). Series include Ancient Warrior Guide and Lucius Panderius. A Walk Through Ancient Rome (2024) is the newest title.

Philip Pullman

51 books• 10 series

Philip Pullman's catalogue covers fantasy and children's adventure, with detective stories, fairy tales and graphic novels alongside. His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust are the sequences it is built around, joined by the Sally Lockhart mysteries, the New Cut Gang, the Canongate Myths and The Adventures of John Blake. Sixty-five catalogued titles run from The Haunted Storm (1972) through The Ruby in the Smoke (1985) to The Rose Field in 2025.

Philip R. Craig (December 10, 1933 to May 8, 2007) was a writer known for the Martha's Vineyard mysteries. The catalogue holds 23 books, from Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn (1969) and A Beautiful Place to Die (1989) to Vineyard Chill (2008). Titles in between include Off Season (1994), A Case of Vineyard Poison (1995), Death on a Vineyard Beach (1996) and A Deadly Vineyard Holiday (1997). A second series, Brady Coyne/J.W. Jackson, also appears. Subjects include private investigators, Jeff Jackson, Brady Coyne, Massachusetts and art.

Philip Reeve

48 books• 12 series

Philip Reeve, born on 28 February 1966, is an English author and illustrator of children's books, known above all for Mortal Engines (2001) and its sequels, the Mortal Engines Quartet published between 2001 and 2006. Here Lies Arthur (2007), Reeve's novel drawn from the Arthurian legend, won the Carnegie Medal. Forty-eight catalogued titles reach Bridge of Storms: A Mortal Engines Novel (2026), across Fever Crumb, Larklight, Railhead, Goblins, Buster Bayliss, Utterly Dark, Adventuremice and the Not-So-Impossible Tales, written largely for readers in grades 6 to 8.

Philip Roth

38 books• 3 series

Philip Roth wrote American fiction about Jewish men, academics and the country they lived in. The Conversion of the Jews (1958) opens the catalogue, Goodbye, Columbus followed in 1959, and Portnoy's Complaint arrived in 1969. Nathan Zuckerman, David Kepesh and the American Trilogy are the recurring structures. Thirty-eight titles are catalogued, ending with Why Write? in 2017.

Donovan Nash is the character at the centre of Philip S. Donlay's one recorded series, and eight catalogued books carry Donlay's name between 2004 and 2018. Category Five (2004) opens the run and Speed the Dawn (2018) ends it. Thrillers, suspense and adventure are the recorded categories, with aircraft accidents, volcanoes, kidnapping, terrorists and missing persons among the subjects. A Donlay book runs to about 320 pages.

Philip Shelby (12 July 1950 - 18 December 2019) was an American writer of conspiracy fiction. Eight books carry his name, from This Far from Paradise (1988) to By Dawn's Early Light (2002), including Tides (1989), Dreamweavers (1991), Days of Drums (1996), Gatekeeper (1997) and Last Rights (1997). Subject headings for the run cover conspiracies, intelligence officers, assassins, the United States Secret Service, presidents and elections. Shelby also wrote The Cassandra Compact, the second Covert-One novel, in conjunction with Robert Ludlum.

Philip Wylie, full name Philip Gordon Wylie (May 12, 1902 – October 25, 1971), was an American writer whose range took in science fiction, mysteries, social polemic and satire on subjects such as ecology and the danger of nuclear war. Catalogue subjects include life on other planets, scientists, evolutionary ethics and organized crime. The earliest listed title is Heavy Laden (1928), followed by Gladiator (1930), The Murderer Invisible (1931), When Worlds Collide (1932) and After Worlds Collide (1933).

Philip Yancey

71 books• 1 series

Philip Yancey writes about Christian faith and spiritual questions. Born November 4, 1949, and now retired, the American author has sold more than 15 million books in English, with translations into 40 languages. The Jesus I Never Knew won the ECPA Christian Book of the Year Award in 1996, and What's So Amazing About Grace? won it in 1998. Publishers include Hachette, HarperCollins Christian Publishing, InterVarsity Press, Rabbit Room Press and Penguin Random House. The catalogue lists 71 titles, from After the Wedding (1976) to Undone: A Modern Rendering of John Donne's Devotions (2023). Grace, pain, the Bible and theology lead the subject tags.

Philipp Schott's catalogue holds eight books. The Accidental Veterinarian (2019), How to Examine a Wolverine (2021) and The Battle Cry of the Siamese Kitten (2022) take veterinary practice as their subject, and the Dr. Bannerman Vet Mystery series turns it into crime fiction: Fifty-Four Pigs (2022), Six Ostriches (2023), Eleven Huskies (2024) and Three Bengal Kittens (2026), each title a count of animals. The Willow Wren (2021) sits apart from both.

Philippa Gregory

46 books• 11 series

Philippa Gregory is an English historical novelist, born in Kenya on 9 January 1954, publishing since 1987. The Other Boleyn Girl (2001) won the Romantic Novelists' Association's Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 2002 and became two films. AudioFile magazine named Gregory the queen of British historical fiction. The catalogue holds 46 books from Wideacre (1987) to Royal Witch (2026). Series include Plantagenet and Tudor, Order of Darkness, Wideacre, Fairmile, Tradescant and Princess Rules, alongside children's books and non-fiction. Queens, kings and rulers, England and sisters recur in the subjects.

Phillip DePoy is a mystery novelist with 23 catalogued books from Angels (1995) to Sammy Two Shoes (2021). DePoy's series are Fever Devilin, Flap Tucker, Foggy Moskowitz and Christopher Marlowe. Several early titles play on one word, as in Easy, Too Easy, Dead Easy and Easy as One, Two, Three. The Devil's Hearth (2003) and The Witch's Grave (2004) are later books, and folklorists, mountain life and Atlanta appear among the subjects.

Phillip Drayer Duncan writes the Blade Mage, Moonshine Wizard, Chronicles of the Moonshine Wizard, Assassins, Inc. and Vanguard of the Desolate World series. The 24 catalogued Duncan books span 2013 to 2026, with a median length of 167 pages. A Fist of Thorns and The Hellhounds date from 2013, and Assassins Incorporated followed in 2014 with a sequel, Assassins Incorporated: Rehired, in 2018. A Sword Named Sharp (2020) is among the later titles. Fun With Friends! (2026) is the newest entry.

Phillip Hoose

14 books

Phillip Hoose is an American writer of books, essays, stories, songs and articles, born on May 31, 1947. Hoose's first published works were written for adults, and later work turned to children and young adults. The Race to Save the Lord God Bird (2004) won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for nonfiction, and Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (2009) won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. The 14 catalogued books run from We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S. History (1980) to Duet: Our Journey in Song with the Northern Mockingbird (2022).

Phillip Margolin

35 books• 6 series

Legal thrillers built on murder trials are the work of Phillip Margolin. Gone, But Not Forgotten (1993) sits early in a catalogue of 35 books that reaches 2026, and Margolin's series follow the lawyers Robin Lockwood, Amanda Jaffe, Madison Kincaid, and Brad Miller with Dana Cutler. Courtroom suspense and criminal investigation carry the novels, which run to a median of 362 pages.

Phillip Strang writes crime fiction in two settings. British police procedurals run through the DCI Isaac Cook, DI Tremayne, DI Tobias Stone and Sergeant Natalie Campbell series and the Freya Tulloch Orkney mysteries; the Australian outback supplies the Maya Thorne, Sarah Reeves, Jodi Brennan and Odysseus Kalaris thrillers. Ninety-three catalogued books run from The Haberman Virus (2015) to Feral Ground (2026).

Cornwall is Phillipa Ashley's territory. Her later novels, Summer at the Cornish Cafe (2016), Christmas on the Little Cornish Isles (2017), Confetti at the Cornish Café (2017), One Cornish Summer With You (2025), put romance against the county's coast and islands. The earlier books, from Decent Exposure (2006) and Dating Mr. December (2010), sit closer to chick lit. 30 titles are catalogued between 2006 and 2025, and Ashley continues to publish.

Mystery, romance and suspense make up the subject records for Phillipa Nefri Clark, whose 43 catalogued books run from 2017 to 2026. The Stationmaster's Cottage and Jasmine Sea both date from 2017, and Books & Crooks is listed for 2026. Series include Rivers End, Charlotte Dean Mysteries, Daphne Jones Mysteries, Detective Liz Moorland, Temple River, Maple Gardens Matchmakers and Doctor Grok's Peculiar Shop.

Phoebe Atwood Taylor, born in Boston in 1909 and died there in 1976, wrote mystery novels under her own name and as Freeman Dana and Alice Tilton. Her first, The Cape Cod Mystery (1931), introduced Asey Mayo, the Codfish Sherlock, who went on to appear in 24 novels; Leonidas Witherall heads a second series. Taylor drew on her own Boston childhood and her knowledge of Cape Cod for the local detail, and the critic Dilys Winn placed her as the mystery writer's answer to Buster Keaton. She graduated from Barnard College in 1930 and married the surgeon Grantley Walder Taylor in 1951. Thirty-three catalogued titles date from 1931 to 1987.

Phoebe MacLeod has published 16 catalogued books since 2022, four of them in that first year: Fred and Breakfast, Let's Not Be Friends, Not The Man I Thought He Was and Someone Else's Honeymoon. An (Un)Romantic Comedy, Love at First Site and Never Ever Getting Back Together followed in 2023, My Not So Perfect Summer in 2024, and Out of Office in 2026. No series is recorded, and MacLeod continues to publish.

Phoef Sutton has eight catalogued books, published between 1998 and 2018. Always Six O'Clock (1998) opens the run and From Away (2018) closes it. Subjects recorded across the books include suspense, thrillers, hard-boiled mystery, humour, ghost stories and bodyguards, and the recurring figure attached to the catalogue is Dead Man. Listings credit Lee Goldberg and William Rabkin alongside Sutton on two books each, with Lisa Klink and Kate Danley on one apiece.

Phoenix Daniels has 19 books on file, published between 2014 and 2025. Beautiful Prey (2014) starts the run, which continues through Beautiful Prey 2, Beautiful Prey 3 and Beautiful Prey 4, and Retaliation (2025) is the most recent catalogued title. Storm Romance and Creole Nights are the two series recorded under the name. A handful of titles carry a second credit, among them Lolah Lace, Keta Kendric, Kassanna and Francesca Penn. New books have come at an average gap of 0.6 years.

Phyllis A. Whitney

77 books• 2 series

Phyllis A. Whitney published across five decades: 77 catalogued books, from A Place for Ann (1941) to Amethyst Dreams (1997), with the 1960s the busiest decade. The work splits between mystery, suspense and romance for adults and fiction written for younger readers, so early titles such as A Star for Ginny (1942) and The Mystery of the Gulls (1949) sit beside later romantic suspense. Whitney also wrote on craft, including Writing Juvenile Fiction (1947). Murder, detection, families and fathers and daughters are the recurring subjects.

Phyllis Gotlieb, born Bloom in 1926, was a Canadian poet and science fiction novelist who died in 2009. The Gotlieb catalogue lists 20 books from Who Knows One? (1961) to Phyllis Loves Kelly (2014). Sunburst (1964) and O Master Caliban! (1976) are among the novels, and Starcats, Lyhhrt Trilogy and Dahlgren's World are the series. Telepathy, cats, life on other planets and women judges appear in the subjects.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

131 books• 11 series

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, born in 1933, wrote 131 catalogued books for children and young adults across half a century. Shiloh, a quartet of children's novels, won the Newbery Medal in 1992, and the Alice McKinley series became one of the most frequently challenged sets of books of the early 21st century. The Boy/Girl Battle, Bessledorf Mysteries, Witch Saga, Cat Pack and Roxie and the Hooligans fill out the list, which runs from To Make a Wee Moon (1969) to Roxie and the Hooligans at Buzzard's Roost (2018). Family life, schools, friendship and siblings are the constant subjects, at a median of 154 pages.

Pico Iyer

22 books

Travel writing is the main work of Pico Iyer, an English-born essayist and novelist born on 11 February 1957. Iyer's books on crossing cultures include Video Night in Kathmandu (1988), The Lady and the Monk (1991) and The Global Soul (2000). Japan and Buddhism are recurring subjects. Iyer has written for Time, Harper's, The New York Review of Books and The New York Times. His 22 books reach Aflame: Learning from Silence (2025).

Pierce Brown

10 books• 2 series

Pierce Brown writes science fiction, and the Red Rising saga accounts for the whole catalogue. Red Rising (2014), Golden Son (2015) and Morning Star (2016) come first, followed by the Iron Gold tetralogy, which runs from Iron Gold and Dark Age (2018) to Lightbringer (2023). Ten catalogued books carry Brown's name, graphic novels made with Rik Hoskin among them. Dystopia and resistance to government are the recurring subjects.