H. P. Lovecraft
American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction
novelist
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.
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
Doris Lessing
British-Zimbabwean novelist
Primo Levi
Italian Jewish chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer
Ira Levin
American novelist, playwright, and songwriter
Par Lagerkvist
Swedish author who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951.
Lagerkvist wrote poetry, plays, novels, short stories, and essays of considerable expressive power and influence from his early 20s to his late 70s. One of his central themes was the fundamental question of good and evil, which he examined through such figures as Barabbas, the man who was freed instead of Jesus, and Ahasuerus, the Wandering Jew
Jhumpa Lahiri
American author known for her short stories, novels and essays in English, and, more recently, in Italian
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Italian writer and the last Prince of Lampedusa