P
Packer, ZZ
Identity Theory: Interview with ZZ Packer
Click on "Interviews" at this vibrant online zine to read fresh, substantial interviews with Packer and 149 other writers. The photos are good, too.
LA Weekly: ZZ Packer on Religion and America
The blogger Joshuah Bearman features an example of Packer's political writing.
The New Yorker Online: Interview with ZZ Packer
Cressida Leyshon interviews Packer about her career and her latest work. A short story, "The Ant of the Self," is available here as well.
Paley, Grace
New York State Writers' Institute: Grace Paley
The Writers' Institute website honors Grace Paley's tenure as the first official state author of New York. This page includes a biography and bibliography; also click on the link at the bottom for a transcript of a 1989 radio interview.
New York Times Featured Author: Grace Paley
This collection in the New York Times archive features a sample first chapter of Paley's semi-memoir "Just As I Thought," numerous reviews and articles (some of which focus on her political activities), and an audio file of her reading at a famous writers' milieu, the 92nd Street YMCA. You may have to register (at no charge) to access all the material.
Pardo Bazan, Emilia
World Literature Website: Emilia Pardo Bazan
This page on the world literature site of Fidel Fajardo-Acosta includes biographical information, major works, historical context, quotations, historical links, and a brief literary analysis of Pardo Bazan's story "The Revolver," all in concise, bulleted form.
Casa-Museu Emilia Pardo Bazan
Here is the Spanish-language website of a museum in the countess's former home. If you don't read Spanish and don't have anyone to translate, you can paste sections of the text into an online translator such as
Parker, Dorothy
Dorothy Parker's New York
This reader appreciation site offers a large array of interviews, newspaper clippings, and biographical photos, as well as some audio files.
Modern American Poetry: Dorothy Parker
Parker's substantial page at the University of Illinois website includes a brief biography, articles and reviews by Parker and her critics, clippings of her published work, and links.
Pirandello, Luigi
Books and Writers: Luigi Pirandello
This encyclopedia-like site offers a substantial critical biography, list of works, and a list of titles for suggested reading.
Nobel Laureates: Luigi Pirandello
Honoring this author as the Nobel laureate for literature in 1934, this site provides the presentation speech by the secretary of the Swedish Academy analyzing the themes of Pirandello's work, plus Pirandello's brief acceptance speech and a short biography.
Plato
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Plato
The Plato entries in the online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy contain a dozen short essays on the life work of this philosopher.
The Internet Classics Archive: Plato
Approximately twenty of Plato's works are available online as part of an archiving project by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Porter, Katherine Anne
University of Maryland Library: Katherine Anne Porter
The library housing this author's papers provides a biography, bibliography, and information on her manuscripts and correspondence. The sections on the provenance and processing of this collection are highly readable and give you some idea of the archivist's role in scholarship.
American Masters: Katherine Anne Porter
The website of this PBS series offers a brief biography of Porter linked to an additional page on Greenwich Village, the New York City neighborhood where she lived after leaving her native state of Texas.