Michael James Ploof is the USA Today bestselling author of numerous novels, including the Legends of Agora series and the Sock Gnome Chronicles. His hobbies include reading, cooking, gardening, and playing guitar, bass, and drums. Above all else, he enjoys beating the odds. Michael lives in New York.

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Serhii Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History and the director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. The author of numerous books, including Chernobyl, which was awarded the Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction, Plokhy lives in Burlington, Massachusetts.

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Constantine Pleshakov received his PhD from the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He is coauthor of Inside the Kremlin's Cold War and Flight of the Romanovs and has published six novels and a collection of short stories in Russia. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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Gary Player has won 167 professional golf tournaments worldwide and is one of only five men to capture golf's coveted career Grand Slam. He won nine Major championships on the PGA Tour and nine Major championships on the Senior Tour, and is the only player in history to complete the career Grand Slam on both tours.

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Meara Platt is the USA Today bestselling, award-winning author of numerous novels, including the Farthingale series and the Braydens series. She lives on Long Island, New York, with her husband and two terrific children.

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Tony Platt is the author of numerous books on race, inequality, and social justice in American history, including Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States, The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency, and Grave Matters: The Controversy over Excavating California's Buried Indigenous Past.

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Plato (427–347 B.C.) was a classical Greek philosopher and writer whose best-known works include the Republic, the Apology, and the Symposium.

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Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 in Massachusetts. Her books include the poetry collections The Colossus, Crossing the Water, Winter Trees, Ariel, and The Collected Poems, which won the Pulitzer Prize. She died in London in 1963.

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Richard Plass is president of CrossPoint Ministry in Jeffersonville, Indiana, where he cultivates spiritual formation in the lives of leaders. After serving in pastoral ministry for twenty-five years, he obtained a PhD from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in counseling.

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Adam Plantinga has been a police officer for seventeen years, and is currently a sergeant with the San Francisco Police Department. Plantinga's first book, 400 Things Cops Know, received rave reviews from star crime writers such as Lee Child, Edward Conlon, and Joseph Wambaugh.

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Rebecca Jo Plant is professor of history at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America.

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Planned Parenthood is America's most trusted provider of reproductive health care. With over 600 health centers, Planned Parenthood delivers vital reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of women, men, and young people worldwide. Find them online at plannedparenthood.org.

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