H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American writer of horror fiction, whose stories of hostile, supernatural forces, known collectively as the Cthulhu Mythos, have lent names...

Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Harry Lewis (1885-1951) was an American novelist. Short Biography: He made a reputation with Main Street (1920), depicting American small-towm life; Babbitt (1922),...

C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was a British academic and writer, born in Belfast. Short Biography: His books include the medieval study The Allegory of Love (1936), and the...

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) was a German dramatist and critic. Short Biography: His plays include Miss Sara Sampson in 1755, Minna von Bamhelm in 1767, Emilia Galotti...

Doris Lessing

Doris May Lessing (born Taylor) 1919 was an English novelist, born in Iran. Short Biography: Concerned with social and political themes, particularly the place of women in society...

Octavian Paler

Octavian Paler was born on July 2, 1926 in a small village called Lisa in Brasov, Romania. He is a writer, journalist and editor and he comments the political and cultural events in...

Anne Graham Lotz

Anne Graham Lotz was born on 1948 in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is an Evangelist and author. She taught Bible Study Fellowship from 1976 to 1988, in Raleigh. Graham is the founder...

Rosamond Lehmann

Rosamond Nina Lehmann (1903-1990) books include Invitation to the Waltz (1932), 77wr Weather in the Streets (1936), and A Sea-Grape Tree (1976). Short Biography: Once neglected...

John Le Carre

Pseudonym of David John Comwell (born in 1931) is a English thriller writer. Short Biography: His low-key realistic accounts of complex espionage include The Spy Who Came in...

F. R. Leavis

Frank Raymond Leavis (1895-1978) was an English literary critic, and co-founder (with his wife Q. D. Leavis) and editor of the controversial review Scrutiny (1932-1953). Short Biography...

Stephen Leacock

Stephen Butler Leacock (1869-1944) was a Canadian humorist, whose writings include Literary Lapses in 1910, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town in 1912, and Frenzied Fiction in 1918. Short...

D. H. Lawrence

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English writer, who in his work expressed his belief in emotion and the sexual impulse as creative and true to human nature. Why is D. H....

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) was a French writer. Short Biography: Reflexions, ou sentences et maximes morales/Reflections, or Moral Maxims (1665) is a collection...

Ring Lardner

Ring Lardner (1885-1933) was an American short story writer. Short Biography: A sporting correspondent especially keen on baseball, he based his characters on the people he met...

Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scottish historian and folklore scholar. Short Biography: His writings include historical works; anthropological essays, such as Myth, Ritual and...

Osbert Lancaster

Osbert Lancaster (1908-1986) was a English cartoonist and writer. Short Biography: In 1939 he began producing daily "pocket cartoons" for the Daily Express, in which he satirized...

Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb (1775-1834) collaborated with his sister Mary (1764-1847) on Tales from Shakespeare (1807), and his Specimens of English Dramatic Poets (1808) helped to revive interest...

Jerzy Kosinski

Jerzy Kosinski (1933-1991) was a Polish-born American novelist. Short Biography: Author of The Painted Bird (1965), about a strange boy brutally treated during World War II, Being...

Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) was a Hungarian author. Imprisoned by the Nazis in France 1940, he escaped to England. Short Biography: His novel Darkness at Noon (1941) is a fictional...

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Joseph Kipling (1865-1936) was a English writer, born in India. Short Biography: His stories for children include the Jungle Books (1894-1895), Stalky and Co (1899),...

Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) was an English author. Short Biography: Rector of Everstey, Hampshire (1842-1875), he was known as the "Chartist clergyman" because of such social...

Helen Keller

Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968) was an American author. Short Biography: Born in Alabama, she became blind and deaf through an illness when 19 months old. Only the tuition of Anne...

Garrison Keillor

Garrison Keillor (born in 1942) is an American writer and humorist. Short Biography: His hometown is Anoka, Minnesota, in the American Midwest. It inspired his Lake Wobegon stories...

Ben Jonson

Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637) was a English dramatist, poet, and critic. Short Biography: Every Man in his Humour (1598) established the English "comedy of humours", in which each...