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LAGERLOF, Selma
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof (1858-1940) was a Swedish author and the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. |
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LAMB, Mary
Mary Lamb (1764-1847) was an English author. |
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LANG, Andrew
Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. |
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LAW, Janice
Janice Law is a popular American mystery writer. |
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LAWRENCE, D. H.
David Herbert Richards Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English writer. |
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Le FANU, J. Sheridan
J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish journalist, novelists, and short story writer, and is often called the father of the modern ghost story. |
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Le GALLIENNE, Richard
Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947) was an English man of letters, closely associated with the literary world of London in the 1890s. |
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LE GUIN, Ursula K.
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin is an American author of novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories. She is best known for her fantasy and science fiction. |
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LE QUEUX, William
William Tufnell Le Queux (1864-1927) was an Anglo-French journalist, writer, and diplomat. |
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LEACOCK, Stephen
Stephen Butler Leacock (1869-1944) was a Canadian writer and economist. |
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LeBLANC, Maurice
Maurice Marie Emile Leblanc (1864-1941) was a French novelist and short story writer, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsene Lupin. |
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LEE, General Robert E.
Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) was the commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War. |
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LEE, Tanith
Tanith Lee is a British writer of science fiction, horror and fantasy. |
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LEE, Vernon
Violet Paget (1856-1935) was a British writer of supernatural stories, who wrote under the pen name Vernon Lee. |
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LEIBER, Fritz
Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. (1910–1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. |
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LEINSTER, Murray
Murray Leinster (1896-1975) was the nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an American science fiction and alternate history writer. |
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LENIN, V.I.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870-1924), better known by the alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, a communist politician, the main leader of the October Revolution, the first head of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic and from 1922, the first de facto leader of the Soviet Union. |
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LEROUX, Gaston
Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (1868-1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel "The Phantom of the Opera" (1910). |
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LESSING, G. E.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic. |
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LEVETT-YEATS, S.
Sidney Kilner Levett-Yeats (c. 1858-1916) wrote popular swashbuckling historical romances of the 'cloak and sword school.' |
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LEVI, Eliphas
Abb Louis Constant (1810-1875), who wrote under the pseudonym of Eliphas Levi, was a defrocked Catholic priest and one of the leading occultists of the 19th century. |
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LEWIS, Sinclair
Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. He became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930. |
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LEWISOHN, Ludwig
Ludwig Lewisohn (1882-1955) was a founding faculty member of Brandeis University. |
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LILIUOKALANI
Liliuokalani (1838-1917), born Lydia Kamakaeha Kaola Malii Liliuokalani, was the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii. She was overthrown in 1893 by commercial and political forces in the United States. |
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LINCOLN, Abraham
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), was the 16th President of the U.S., and led the country through the American Civil War until his assassination. |
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LINCOLN, Joseph C.
Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1870-1944) was an American author of novels, poems, and short stories. |
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LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, J.B.
J. B. Lippincott & Co. was an American publishing house founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1836 by Joshua Ballinger Lippincott. |
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LLYWELYN, Morgan
Morgan Llywelyn is an American-born Irish author best known for her historical fantasy, historical fiction, and historical non-fiction. |
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LOCKE, John
John Locke (1632-1704) was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. |
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LOFTING, Hugh
Hugh John Lofting (1886-1947) was a British author, trained as a civil engineer, who created the character of Doctor Dolittle. |
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LONDON, Jack
John Griffith "Jack" London was born John Griffith Chaney (1876-1916). He was an American author, journalist, and social activist. |
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LONG, Frank Belknap
Frank Belknap Long (1901-1994) was a prolific early author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. |
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LONG, John Luther
John Luther Long (1861-1927) was an American lawyer and writer best known for his short story "Madame Butterfly," which was made into a play and an opera. |
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LONGUS
Longus, sometimes Longos, was the author of an ancient Greek novel of romance, Daphnis and Chloe. Very little is known of his life, and it is assumed that he lived on the isle of Lesbos (setting for Daphnis and Chloe) during the 2nd century AD. |
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LORIMER, George C.
George Claude Lorimer (1838-1904) was a noted reverend, and was pastor of several churches around the United States. |
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LOVECRAFT, H. P.
Howard Phillips "H. P." Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, and was especially known for his "weird fiction." |
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LOVER, Samuel
Samuel Lover (1797-1868) was an Irish songwriter, novelist, as well as a painter. |
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LOWELL, Amy
Amy Lawrence Lowell (1874-1925) was an American poet who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. |
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LUCAS, E.V.
Edward Verrall Lucas (1868-1938) was a versatile and popular English writer. |
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LUDLOW, James M.
James M. Ludlow (1886-1928) was an American Presbyterian clergyman and author. |
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LUTHER, Martin
Martin Luther (1483-1546) was a former Catholic priest and a founder of Protestantism. |
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