Claude Levi-Strauss
French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology
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C. S. Lewis
British writer and lay theologian
Hugh Lofting
English author trained as a civil engineer, who created the classic children’s literature character of Doctor Dolittle
Malcolm Lowry
English poet and novelist who is best known for his 1947 novel Under the Volcano, which was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list.
Laurie Lee
English poet, novelist and screenwriter, who was brought up in the small village of Slad in Gloucestershire
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
Rudyard Kipling
English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist
C. H. B. Kitchin
British novelist of the early twentieth century.
Bernard Knox
English classicist, author, and critic who became an American citizen
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