Pedro Nolasco Cruz Vergara (April 18, 1857 – November 11, 1939) was a Chilean literary critic, novelist, writer, and politician.

His mother was the eldest daughter of Chilean legislator Pedro Nolasco Vergara Albano and Mercedes Vergara-Loys.

The couple had 9 children: Fabio, Nicolás, Pedro Nolasco, Susana, Elisa, Mercedes, Julia, Eduardo and Manuel.

He is the author of the successful novels Fantasias Humoriscicas (1881), Estaban (1883), The Passage of Venus (1884), and Flor de Campo (1886).

),[5] "Desolation" by Gabriela Mistral and "Al vivir" by Francisco Concha and Castillo (1929), Biography Carlos Walker Martínez (1904), Tales (1930) and the posthumous book entitled Bilbao and Lastarrias (1944).