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
novelist
Choderlos de Laclos
French novelist, official, Freemason and army general, best known for writing the epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses .
A unique case in French literature, he was for a long time considered to be as scandalous a writer as the Marquis de Sade or Restif de La Bretonne
Madame de Lafayette
French writer; she authored La Princesse de Clves, France’s first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature.
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
D. H. Lawrence
English writer and poet
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
Soren Kierkegaard
Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher
Stephen King
American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels