George R. R. Martin
American novelist, screenwriter, television producer and short story writer
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
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