John le Carre
British-Irish author, best known for his espionage novels
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Maurice Sendak
American illustrator and writer of children’s books
Ursula K. Le Guin
American author best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series
Thomas S. Kuhn
American philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom
Harper Lee
American novelist best known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird
Milan Kundera
Czech writer who went into exile in France in 1975, becoming a naturalised French citizen in 1981. Kundera’s Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979; he received his Czech citizenship in 2019. He “sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores”.Kundera’s best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Laurie Lee
English poet, novelist and screenwriter, who was brought up in the small village of Slad in Gloucestershire
Tony Kushner
American author, playwright, and screenwriter
James Lees-Milne
English writer and expert on country houses, who worked for the National Trust from 1936 to 1973. He was an architectural historian, novelist and biographer
Madeleine L’Engle
American writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult fiction, including A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time