Known Author List (May 2004)

  • The following is a list of authors whose surname or family name starts with L. As information is added to the Open Encyclopedia an entry will appear above.

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    Internet links for Authors 'L' in the Open Directory.

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    • L


    La Fayette, Marie-Madeleine
    Lackey, Mercedes
    Lafferty, R. A.
    Lagerkvist, Pär
    Lagerlöf, Selma
    Lahiri, Jhumpa
    Lamb, Charles
    Lamb, Wally
    Lamming, George
    Lamott, Anne
    L'Amour, Louis
    Lang, Andrew
    Langland, William
    Langton, Jane
    Lanier, Sidney
    Lansdale, Joe R.
    Lanyer, Aemilia
    Larkin, Philip
    Lasker-Schüler, Else
    Lasn, Kalle
    Lau, Evelyn
    Laumer, Keith
    Laurence, Margaret
    Laurino, Maria
    Lautréamont, Comte de
    Lavant, Christine
    Lawhead, Stephen
    Lawrence, D. H.
    Lawrence, Josephine
    Lawrence, Thomas Edward
    Laymon, Richard
    Lazarevich, Alexander
    le Carré, John
    Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
    Le Guin, Ursula K.
    Le Hunt, Bem
    Leacock, Stephen
    Leapor, Mary
    Lear, Edward
    Leary, Timothy
    Léautaud, Paul
    Ledwidge, Francis
    Lee, Harper
    Lee, Mary Soon
    Lee, Sharon
    Lee, Tanith
    Lehman, David
    Leiber, Fritz
    Leiber, Justin
    Leinster, Murray
    Lem, Stanislaw
    Lemelin, Roger
    Lemieux, Michèle
    Lenard, Alexander
    L'Engle, Madeleine
    Lennox, Charlotte
    Leonard, Elmore
    Leopardi, Giacomo
    Lermontov, Michail
    Lernet-Holenia, Alexander
    Leroux, Gaston
    Lessing, Doris
    Lethem, Jonathan
    Levertov, Denise
    Levi, Primo
    Levine, Philip
    Levy, D. A.
    Lewis, C. S.
    Lewis, Matthew
    Lewis, Sinclair
    Lewis, Wyndham
    Leyner, Mark
    Li Bai
    Li Shangyin
    Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph
    Lichtenberg, Jacqueline
    Liebler, M. L.
    Lightman, Alan
    Lindholm, Megan
    Lindquist, Mark
    Lins, Osman
    Lipton, Douglas
    Lisle, Holly
    Little, Jean
    Livius Andronicus
    Livy
    Llull, Ramon
    Locke, John
    Lodge, David
    Logue, Christopher
    London, Jack
    Long, Duncan
    Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
    Longstreet, Augustus
    López, Josefina
    López Velarde, Ramón
    Lorca, Federico García
    Lord, Walter
    Lorrah, Jean
    Lovecraft, H. P.
    Lovelace, Richard
    Lowell, Amy (9)
    Lowell, Percival
    Lowell, Robert
    Lowndes, Marie Belloc
    Lowry, Lois
    Lowry, Malcolm
    Loy, Mina
    Lucan
    Ludlow, Fritz Hugh
    Lumley, Brian
    Lunn, Janet
    Lurie, Alison
    Lux, Thomas
    Lyall, Edna
    Lydgate, John
    Lyly, John
    Lyttelton, George

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    Lindsey, David
    List, Dennis
    Long, Amelia Reynolds
    Longstreet, Stephen
    Luckett, Mitch