Russell Kirk
American political theorist, moralist, historian, social critic, and literary critic, known for his influence on 20th-century American conservatism
20th-century american novelists
E. L. Konigsburg
American writer and illustrator of children’s books and young adult 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
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
Harper Lee
American novelist best known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird
Fritz Leiber
American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction
Norton Juster
American academic, architect, and writer
MacKinlay Kantor
American journalist, novelist and screenwriter
Carolyn Keene
Pseudonym of the authors of the Nancy Drew mystery stories and The Dana Girls mystery stories, both produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate
Jack Kerouac
American novelist and poet of French Canadian ancestry, who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.Raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts, Kerouac learned English at age six and spoke with a marked accent into his late teens