Armistead Maupin
American writer who wrote Tales of the City, a series of novels set in San Francisco.
20th-century american novelists
Donna Leon
American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice, Italy, featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti
Elmore Leonard
American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter
Ira Levin
American novelist, playwright, and songwriter
Sinclair Lewis
American writer and playwright
Alan Lightman
American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur
Jack London
American novelist, journalist and social activist
Phillip Lopate
American film critic, essayist, fiction writer, poet, and teacher
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction
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