A. J. Liebling
American journalist who was closely associated with The New Yorker from 1935 until his death
Creator
Donna Leon
American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice, Italy, featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti
Alan Lightman
American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur
Par Lagerkvist
Swedish author who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951.
Lagerkvist wrote poetry, plays, novels, short stories, and essays of considerable expressive power and influence from his early 20s to his late 70s. One of his central themes was the fundamental question of good and evil, which he examined through such figures as Barabbas, the man who was freed instead of Jesus, and Ahasuerus, the Wandering Jew
Jhumpa Lahiri
American author known for her short stories, novels and essays in English, and, more recently, in Italian
Barbara Kingsolver
American novelist, essayist and poet
John Lahr
American theater critic
Rudyard Kipling
English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Italian writer and the last Prince of Lampedusa
Russell Kirk
American political theorist, moralist, historian, social critic, and literary critic, known for his influence on 20th-century American conservatism