Leonid Andreev

Leonid Andreev (full name Leonid Nikolaevici Andreev) was born on August 9, 1871 in Oriol, Russia. He was a famous Russian playwright. Biography and Career : Leonid Andreev studied...

Lisa Goldstein

Lisa Goldstein (full name Elizabeth Joy Goldstein) was born on November 21, 1953 in Los Angeles and she is a Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Award nominated fantasy and science fiction...

Lillian Hellman

Lillian Hellman (1907-1984) was an American playwright, whose work is largely concerned with contemporary political and social issues. Short Biography: The Children's Hour (1934)...

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott, 1832-1888, she was a American author of the children's classic Little Women 1869, which drew on her own home circumstances, the heroine Jo being a partial self-portrait....

Laurens van der Post

Sir Laurens Jan Van der Post (1906-1996) was a South African writer, whose books, many of them autobiographical, are concerned with the duality of human existence. Short Biography...

Leslie Charteris

Leslie Charteris (1907-1993) was a British novelist. Short Biography: Born in Singapore, his varied career in many exotic occupations gave authentic background to some 40 novels...

Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) was a Italian writer. Short Biography: The novel fu Mama Pascal/The Late Mania Pascal in 1904 was highly acclaimed, along with many short stories....

Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) was a Irish writer, creator of the comic anti-hero Tristram Shandy. Short Biography: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent 1760-1767, an...

Lucian Blaga

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Leo Tolstoy

Lev Nikolaievich Tolstoy (1828-1910) from 1880, he underwent a profound spiritual crisis and took up moral positions including passive resistance to evil, rejection of authority (religious...

Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon (1897-1982) was a French poet and novelist. Short Biography: Beginning as a Dadaist, he became one of the leaders of Surrealism, published volumes of verse and in...

Ludovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533) was an Italian poet, born in Reggio. Short Biography: He wrote Latin poems and comedies on Classical lines, including the epic poem "Orlando Furioso"...

Lew Wallace

Lewis Wallace (1827-1905) served in the Mexican and Civil wars, and subsequently became governor of New Mexico and minister to Turkey. He wrote the historical novels The Fair God in...

Lewis Carroll

Pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898) was a English mathematician and writer of children's books. Short Biography: He wrote the children's classics Alice's Adventures...

Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence George Durrell (1912-1990) was a British novelist and poet. Short Biography: Born in India, he joined the foreign service, and lived mainly in the Est Mediterranean...

Liviu Rebreanu

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Lucian P. Petrescu

Lucian P. Petrescu - prose writer. Born on April 2nd 1956 in Caransebes, he is the son of Petre Petrescu, a physician, and of Felicia Petrescu. He graduated from the University of Medicine...

Lev Tolstoi

Lev Tolstoi (Lev Nicolaievici Tolstoi) was born on August 28, 1828 in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia. He is a Russian novelist, writer, essayist, philosopher. Biography and Career : He...

Leigh Hunt

Leigh James Henry Hunt (1784-1859) was a English poet and essayist. Short Biography: Convicted for libel against the Prince Regent in his Liberal newspaper The Examiner, he was...

Luca Pitu

Luca Pitu - essayist. He also writes under the pseudonym The Teacher from Casvana / Magistrul din Casvana. Born on January14th 1947 in Casvana (Suceava), he is the son of Vasile Pitu...

L. P. Hartley

Leslie Poles Hartley (1895-1972) was a English novelist, noted for his exploration of the sinister. Short Biography: His books include the trilogy The Shrimp and the Anemone...

Leonid Andreyev

Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev (1871-1919) was a Russian author. Short Biography: Many of his works show an obsession with death and madness including the symbolic drama "Life...

Laura Riding

Laura Riding Jackson, (1901-1991) was an American poet, a member of the Fugitive Group of poets, which flourished in the Southern USA (1915-1928). Short Biography: She went to...

Liviu Papadima

Liviu Papadima - critic and literary historian. Also essayist and prose writer. Born on June 11th 1957 in Bucharest, he is the son of the literary historian Ovidiu Papadima and of Stefania...