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. . --Jean de La Bruyθre (16451696) French essayist and moralist. _Les Caractθres_ [1688] --Henry Labouchθre (18311912) British politician and writer. Biographies and/or related books about: Algar Labouchere Thorold _The Life of Henry Labouchere_ [1913] --Ιdouard Renι de Laboulaye (18111883) French jurist, poet, and author. --Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (17411803) French soldier and writer. _Les Liaisons dangereuses_ [1782] --Marquis de Lafayette (17571834) French aristocrat who fought with the American colonists against the British in the American Revolution. --Jean de La Fontaine (16211695) French poet. _Fables_ [16681679] --Fiorello La Guardia (18821947) American politician who served three terms as mayor of New York City [19331945]. Biographies and/or related books about: Ernest Cuneo _Life With Fiorello_ [1955] --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. _Maxims_ [1665], tr. Louis Kronenberger [1959], tr. Leonard Tancock [1959] _Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [1678] _Pensιes de La Rochefoucauld_ (ed. Claude Barbin) [1693] _Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld_ [William Gowans, New York, 1851] --La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Franηois-Alexandre-Frιdιric, Duke (17471827) French educator and social reformer. --Suzanne LaFollette (18931983) Ameican editor and author. _Concerning Women_ [1926] --John Lahr (b. 1941) American critic. _Light Fantastic: Adventures in Theatre_ [1996] --R.D. Laing (19271989) Scottish psychiatrist. _The Politics of Experience_ [1967] --Jean-Baptiste de Monet Lamarck (17441829) French biologist. _Philosophie zoologique_ (Zoological Philosophy) [1809] --Alphonse de Lamartine (17901869) French poet, novelist, and statesman. _Raphaλl, or Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty_ [1849] _History Of The French Revolution Of 1848_ [1854] --Arthur J. Lamb (18701928) American songwriter. "A Bird in a Gilded Cage" [1900] --Lady Caroline Lamb (17851828) English wife of 2nd Viscount Melbourne. --Charles Lamb (17751834) English essayist. _Old Familiar Faces_ [1798] _Essays of Elia_ [1823] _The Last Essays of Elia_ [1833] _Table Talk_ [1834] Biographies and/or related books about: _The Works of Charles Lamb_ [London: E. Moxon, 1852] --Anne Lamott (b. 1954) American author. --Louis L'Amour [Louis Dearborn LaMoore] (19081988) American author of Western fiction. _To the Far Blue Mountains_ [1976] _The Walking Drum_ [1984] _Jubal Sackett_ [1985] _The Haunted Mesa_ [1987] _The Sackett Companion_ [1988] _Education of a Wandering Man_ [1989] --William J. Lampton (c. 18501917) American journalist and author. --Ann Landers [Esther Pauline Friedman Lederer] (19182002) American advice columnist. _Ann Landers Says Truth Is Stranger. . . _ [1968] --Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (18661944) First commissioner of Major League baseball. --Alf Landon (18871987) American politician defeated in a landslide by Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1936 presidential election. --Letitia Elizabeth Landon (18021838) British poet and novelist. _Ethel Churchill; Or, The Two Brides_ [1837] --Walter Savage Landor (17751864) English poet, essayist, and critic. _Imaginary Conversations_ [18241853] Biographies and/or related books about: J. Forster (ed.) _The Works of Walter Savage Landor_ [2 vol., 1846] --Tom Landry (19242000) Coach of Dallas Cowboys [19601988]. _An Autobiography_ [1990] (Written with Greg Lewis.) --Andrew Lang (18441912) Scottish writer and poet. --Dorothea Lange (18951965) American documentary photographer and photojournalist. --William Langland (c. 13301387) English poet. _The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman_ [1377] --Lao-tzu (c. 6th cent. B.C.) The first philosopher of Chinese Taoism and alleged author of the _Tao-te Ching_ (Chinese: Classic of the Way of Power). --Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935) American syndicated newspaper columnist and author. _Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion_ [1988] --Ring Lardner [Ringgold Wilmer Lardner] (18851933) American writer and satirist. _The Big Town_ [1920] _The Young Immigrants_ [1920] --Philip Larkin (19221985) English poet. --Nella Larsen (18931964) American novelist. _Quicksand_ [1928] --Doug Larson (19021981) American journalist. --Bartolomι de Las Casas (14841566) Spanish priest and historian. _Diary_ [1530s] --Jeanne Marie Laskas Author. --Tommy Lasorda (b. 1927) American professional baseball player and manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers [19761996]. --Hugh Latimer (c.14851555) English Protestant martyr. --Stan Laurel (18901965) American film comedian, born in Britain. --Ralph Lauren [Ralph Lifshitz] (b. 1939) American fashion designer. --William L. Laurence (18881977) Lithuanian-born American journalist. --Jacques du Laurens (15831650) --Wilfrid Laurier (18411919) Canadian prime minister [18961911]. --Johann Kaspar Lavater (17411801) Swiss writer, Protestant pastor, and founder of physiognomics. _Aphorisms on Man_ [1788] --Charles B. Lawlor (18521925) American songwriter. "Sidewalks of New York" [1894 song] --D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (18851930) English novelist and poet. _Studies In Classic American Literature_ [1923] _The Plumed Serpent_ [1926] --Gertrude Lawrence (18981952) English stage actress. --Captain James Lawrence USN (17811813) American naval hero. --T. E. Lawrence (18881935) English soldier and writer. _The Seven Pillars of Wisdom_ [1926] --Henry Lawson (18671922) Australian writer and poet. Biographies and/or related books about: Denton Prout _Henry Lawson: The Grey Dreamer_ [1963] --Irving Layton (19122006) Romanian-born Canadian poet. _The Whole Bloody Bird_ [1969] --Emma Lazarus (18491887) American poet. "The New Colossus" [1883] - --Stephen Butler Leacock (18691944) Canadian humorist. _Nonsense Novels_ [1911] _Literary Lapses_ [1910] _Essays and Literary Studies_ [1916] _The Garden of Folly_ [1924] _The Boy I Left Behind Me_ [1947] --Frank Leahy (19081973) Coached Notre Dame football team to 4 national championships. --William D. Leahy (18751959) American naval officer. --Edward Lear (18121888) English landscape painter and writer of nonsense verse. _Book of Nonsense_ [1846] _The Owl and the Pussy-Cat_ [1871] --Denis Leary (b. 1957) American actor and comedian. --Timothy Leary (19201996) American psychologist. --Robert Keith Leavitt (18951967) American advertising copywriter and author. _Voyages and Discoveries_ [1939] --Gustave Le Bon (18411931) French social psychologist best known for his study of the psychological characteristics of crowds. _Revue d'Anthropologie_ [1879] _The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind_ [1895] _The Psychology of Revolution_ [1902] _Aphorisms of Present Times_ [1913] tr. Alice Widener [1979] --Le Corbusier (18871965) French architect. --Fran Lebowitz (b. 1946) American humorist. _Metropolitan Life_ [1978] _Social Studies_ [1981] --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (19091966) Polish writer. _Unkempt Thoughts_, tr. Jacek Galazka [1962] _More Unkempt Thoughts_ [1968] --Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (17071788) French naturalist. --Michael Ledeen (b. 1941) American author and scholar of American foreign policy. --Richard Lederer (b. 1938) American author. _Anguished English_ [1987] --Barbara Lee (b. 1946) American politician. --Bruce Lee (19401973) Martial arts film actor. --Elizabeth Blair Lee (18181906) American woman who lived through the American Civil War. Biographies and/or related books about: Virginia Jeans Laas _Wartime Washington: The Civil War Letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee_ [1991] --Gypsy Rose Lee [Rose Louise Hovick] (19141970) American striptease artist. --Harper Lee (b. 1926) American novelist. _To Kill a Mockingbird_ [1960] --Henry Lee [Light-Horse Harry Lee] (17561818) American cavalry officer during the American Revolution and father of Robert E. Lee. --Nathaniel Lee (c.16531692) English dramatist. _Caesar Borgia_ [1680] --Robert E. Lee (18071870) American Confederate general. Biographies and/or related books about: John Esten Cook _A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee_ [1871] J. William Jones _The Life and Letters of Robert Edward Lee_ [1906] Douglas Southall Freeman _Robert E. Lee_ [1934] --Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929) American writer. _The Lathe of Heaven_ [1971] _The Dispossessed_ [1974] _Always Coming Home_ [1985] --Gershon Legman (19171999) American folklorist. _Love & Death_ [1949] --Ernest Lehman (19152005 ) American screenwriter. --John Lehman (b. 1942) American investment banker and writer who served as Secretary of the Navy [19811987]. --Tom Lehrer (b. 1928) American songwriter and satirist. --Carol Leifer (b. 1956) American stand-up comedian and comedy writer. --Carolyn Leigh (19261983) American songwriter. --Curtis LeMay (19061990) American Air Force officer. _Mission with LeMay: My Story_ [1965] --Jack Lemmon (19252001) American screen and stage actor. --Bob Lemon (19202000) American professional baseball pitcher elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976. --Mark Lemon (18091870) English playright, author, and lyricist. _Oh, Would I Were a Boy Again_ [song] --Madeleine L'Engle (19182007) American writer. _Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art_ [1982] --V.I. Lenin (18701924) Russian revolutionary and first head of the Soviet state (19171924). Biographies and/or related books about: Edward Meade Earl, ed. _Makers of Modern Strategy_ [1943] --John Lennon (19401980) English pop singer and songwriter. --John Lennon (19401980) & Paul McCartney (1942 ) English pop singers and songwriters. Biographies and/or related books about: Cynthia Lennon _John_ [2005] --Jay Leno (b. 1950) American comedian and host of "The Tonight Show" from 1992. --Daniel De Leon (18521914) Curacao-born Marxist; writer and editor for "The People" a NYC weekly. --Elmore Leonard (b. 1925) American novelist. _Split Images_ [1981] --Stew Leonard American merchant. --Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) Florentine painter, sculptor, musician, and scientist. _The Notebooks_ [15081518], tr. Edward MacCurdy --Leopold II (18351909) King of the Belgians [18651909]. --Leopold III (19011983) King of the Belgians [19341951 (abdication)]. --Alan Jay Lerner (19181986) American playwright and lyricist. --Lerner & Loewe Alan Jay Lerner (19181986) American playwright and lyricist Frederic Loewe (19011988) Austrian-American composer. _Brigadoon_ [1947] _Paint Your Wagon_ [1951] _My Fair Lady_ [1956] _Camelot_ [1960] _Gigi_ [1958] {film} --Max Lerner (19021992) American educator, author, and syndicated columnist. _The Unfinished Century_ [1959] --Sammy Lerner (19031989) Romanian-born American songwriter. --Edgar Leslie (18851976) American songwriter. --Doris Lessing [nιe Tayler] (b. 1919) Iranian-born novelist. _The Grass Is Singing_ [1950] --Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (17291781) German dramatist. _Minna von Barnhelm_ [1767] _Emilia Golotti_ [1772] _Nathan der Weise_ [1779] --Sir Roger L'Estrange (16161704) English journalist and pamphleteer. _Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections_ [1738] --Elmer G. Leterman (18971982) American insurance executive and author. --Kathy Lette (b. 1958) Australian author. --Quentin Letts (b. 1963) English journalist. --Oscar Levant (19061972) American pianist and actor. _The Memoirs of an Amnesiac_ [1965] --Sam Levenson (19111980) American humorist. _You Don't Have to be in Who's Who to Know What's What_ [1979] --Aaron Levenstein (19111986) --Carl Levin (b. 1934) American politician. --Stephen Levine (b. 1937) American autor and poet. --Barry Levinson (b. 1942) American screenwriter and film director. _Sixty-Six_ [2003] --George Henry Lewes (18171878) English philosopher and literary critic. _The Spanish Drama_ [1846] _The Lives and Works of Goethe_ [2nd ed., 1858] --Anthony Lewis (b. 1927) American liberal author and columnist. --Bernard Lewis (b. 1916) British-born American professor and Middle-Eastern scholar. _The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam_ [1967] _The Crisis of Islam_ [2003] --C.S. [Clive Staples] Lewis (18981963) British scholar and novelist. _The Screwtape Letters_ [1941] _The Abolition of Man_ [1947] _Mere Christianity_ [1952] _Humanitarian Theory of Punishment_ [1953] _The Four Loves_ [1960] _Reflections on the Psalms_ [1964] _Of This and Other Worlds_ --Joe E. Lewis [Joseph Klewan] (19021971) American comedian. --Joseph Lewis (18891968) American author and teacher. "An Atheist Manifesto" [1954] --Meriwether Lewis (17741809) American explorer. --Sam M. Lewis (18851959) American lyricist. --Sinclair Lewis (18851951) American novelist and playwright. _Main Street_ [1920] _Babbitt_ [1922] _Elmer Gantry_ [1927] _It Can't Happen Here_ [1935] _Gideon Planish_ [1943] --[Percy] Wyndham Lewis (18821957) Canadian-born British artist and writer. --Jim Leyland (b. 1944) Major-league baseball manager. - --Li Po (701762) Chinese poet. --Liberace (19191987) American showman. _Liberace: An Autobiography_ [1973] --Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (17421799) German scientist and drama critic. _Aphorisms_ [17651799] Biographies and/or related books about: Adolf Wilbrandt (ed.) _Selected Writings of Georg C. Lichtenberg_ [1893] --A. J. Liebling (19041963) American syndicated newspaper columnist, author, and staff writer for the New Yorker from 1935 until his death in 1963. During World War II, he served as a correspondent for the magazine in France, England, and North Africa. --James Lileks (b. 1958) American journalist, columnist, and blogger. --Detlev von Liliencron (18441909) German poet and novelist. --Beatrice Lillie (18941989) Canadian actress and comedienne. --Rush Limbaugh (b. 1951) American radio entertainer. --Lin Yutang (18951976) Chinese writer and philogist. _The Importance of Living_ [1937] _Between Tears and Laughter_ [1943] --Abraham Lincoln (18091865) American Republican statesman, President [18611865]. Biographies and/or related books about: Francis B. Carpenter _The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House_ [1869] Francis Fisher Browne _The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln_ [1887] William H. Herndon & Jesse W. Weik _Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life_ [1889] Henry Clay Whitney _Life on the Circuit with Lincoln_ [1892] Ida M Tarbell _The Life of Abraham Lincoln_ [1900] Colonel Alexander Kelly McClure _Lincoln's Yarns and Stories_ [1904] Abraham or Anthony Gross [ed.] _Lincoln's Own Stories_ [1912] J.G. Nicolay and John Hay (eds.) _Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works_ [1920 ed.] J.G. Randall _Lincoln the President_, 4 vols. [1946-1955] _Lincoln's Wit_ [1958] --Anne Morrow Lindbergh (19062001) American writer and wife of Charles Lindbergh. _Bring Me a Unicorn_ [1971] _The Flower And The Nettle_ [1976] --Charles Lindbergh (19021974) American aviator. _The Spirit of St. Louis_ [1953] --John Lindsay (19212000) American congressman [19591965] and mayor of New York City [19661973]. --Ben Barr Lindsey (18691943) American judge. _The Revolt of Modern Youth_ [1925] --Eric Linklater (18991974) Scottish novelist. _Juan in America_ [1931] --Art Linkletter (19122010) Canadian-born American radio and television personality. _A Child's Garden of Misinformation_ [1965] --George Linley (17981865) English songwriter. --Linnaeus [Carl von Linnι] (17071778) Swedish botanist and explorer. --Walter Lippmann (18891974) American journalist. _A Preface to Politics_ [1914] _Liberty and the News_ [1920] _Public Opinion_ [1929] _A Preface to Morals_ [1929] _The Public Philosophy_ [1955] Biographies and/or related books about: Ronald Steel _Walter Lippmann and the American Century_ [1980] --Franz Liszt (18111886) Hungarian composer and pianist. --David Livingstone (18131873) Scottish missionary and explorer. _Missionary Travels and Researches_ [1857] --Livy [Titus Livius] (59 BC17 AD) with Sallust and Tacitus, one of the three great Roman historians. _The History of Rome_ [c. 20 B.C.] - --Richard Llewellyn [Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd] (19061983) Welsh novelist and playwright. _How Green Was My Valley_ [1939] --David Lloyd George (18631945) Welsh-born British Prime Minister [19161922]. - --Arnold Lobel (19331987) Author of children's books. --John Locke (16321704) English political and educational philosopher. _An Essay Concerning Human Understanding_ [1690] _Some Thoughts Concerning Education_ [1693] --David Lodge (b. 1935) English novelist. _The British Museum is Falling Down_ [1965] --Henry Cabot Lodge Sr. (18501924) Republican U.S. senator [18931924]. --Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (19021985) American senator and diplomat. --Frank Loesser (19101969) American songwriter. --Frederick Loewe (19011988) German-born American composer. --James Alexander Logan (18261886) American general and legislator. --Gina Lollobrigida (b. 1927) Italian actress. --Vince Lombardi (19131970) American football player and coach of the Green Bay Packers. He led the Packers to five NFL championships including two Super Bowl victories. Biographies and/or related books about: Jerry Kramer _Instant Replay_ [1968] Tom Dowling _Coach: A Season with Lombardi_ [1970] --Guy Lombardo (19021977) Canadian-born bandleader. --Cesare Lombroso (18351909) Italian criminologist. _The Man of Genius_ [1891] --Jack London [John Griffith Chaney] (18761916) American novelist and short-story writer. _Call of the Wild_ [1903] _The War of Classes_ [1905] _White Fang_ [1906] _The Iron Heel_ [1907] --Lazarus Long (fictional character in Robert A. Heinlein novels). --Russell B. Long (1918-2003) American politician; senator from Louisiana [1948-1987]. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. _Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea_ [1835] _A Psalm of Life_ [1839] _Hyperion_ [1839] _Ballads and Other Poems_ [1841] _The Spanish Student_ [1843] _Evangeline_ [1847] _Kavanagh: A Tale_ [1849] _The Seaside and the Fireside_ [1850] _The Golden Legend_ [1851] _The Song of Hiawatha_ [1855] _Driftwood_ [1857] _Birds of Passage_ [1858] _Tales of a Wayside Inn_ [1863] _John Endicott_ [1868] _The Masque of Pandora_ [1875] _Morituri Salutamus_ [1875] Biographies and/or related books about: Samuel Longfellow (ed.) _Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_ [1887] --Lord Longford (19052001) [Francis Aungier Pakenham, (7th Earl of Longford)] British Labour politician and philanthropist. --James Longstreet (18211904) Confederate general of the American Civil War. --Alice Roosevelt Longworth (18841980) Daughter of Theodore Roosevelt. --Anita Loos (18931981) American novelist and Hollywood screenwriter. _Gentlemen Prefer Blondes_ [1925] _No Mother to Guide Her_ [1961] --Audre Lorde [Audrey Geraldine Lorde] (19341992) American poet. --Sophia Loren (b. 1934) Italian actress. --Konrad Lorenz (19031989) Austrian zoologist. _King Solomon's Ring_ [1949] _On Aggression_ [1963] --George Lorimer (18691937) American editor of "The Saturday Evening Post." _Old Gorgon Graham - More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son_ [1904] --Peter Lorre [Ladislav (Lαszlσ) Lφwenstein] (19041964) Hungarian-born American motion-picture actor. --Louis XIV (16381715) King of France (16431715) --Louis XV (17101774) King of France [17151774] --Joe Louis [Joseph Louis Barrow aka The Brown Bomber] (19141981) Undefeated American boxer and heavyweight champion [19371949]. _My Life Story_ [1947] --Edmund Love (19121990) American military historian. _Subways Are For Sleeping_ [1957] _The 27th Infantry Division in World War II_ --Elijah P. Lovejoy (18021837) American Presbyterian minister, journalist, and abolitionist. --Lord Ralph Lovelace (18391906) English writer, alpinist and linguist. --Richard Lovelace (16181657) English poet. "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars" [1649] --James Lovell (b. 1928) American NASA astronaut. --Lyle Lovett (b. 1956) American country singer and songwriter. --Sir David Low (18911963) British political cartoonist. --Robert Lowe [Viscount Sherbrooke from 1880] (18111892) British Liberal politician. --Amy Lowell (18741925) American poet. Posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1926. --James Russell Lowell (18191891) American poet, critic, essayist, and diplomat. _The Present Crisis_ [1844] _A Fable for Critics_ [1848] _Abraham Lincoln_ [1864] _The Biglow Papers_ Second Series [1867] _My Study Windows_ [1871] _Political Essays_ [1888] --Robert Lowell (19171977) American poet. --Lennie Lower (19031947) Australian humourist. _Here's Luck_ [1930] --William Lowndes (16521724) English politician. - --Sir John Lubbock (18341913) The First Lord and Baron Avebury who was a British banker, politician, and archaeologist. _The Pleasures of Life_ [1887] _The Use of Life_ [1894] --Sir John Lubbock, 3rd Baronet (18031865) English banker, mathematician and astronomer. --Lucan [Marcus Annaeus Lucanus] (3965) Roman poet and republican patriot. --George Lucas (b. 1944) American screenwriter and producer. _Star Wars_ [1977] (screenplay) --Clare Boothe Luce (19031987) American playwright and politician. _The Women_ [1936] --Lucian (c. 120c. 180) Greek rhetorician, pamphleteer, and satirist. --Lucretius [Titus Lucretius Carus] (9955 B.C.) Latin poet and philosopher. "De rerum natura" (On the Nature of Things) --Charles Ludlam (19431987) American actor and playwright. --Martin Luther (14831546) German Protestant theologian. _The Great Catechism_ [1529] _Table Talk_ - --John Lyly (1554?1606) English prose stylist and playwright. _Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit_ [1579] _Euphues and His England_ [1580] _Maides Metamorphosis_ --Russell Lynes (19101991) American art critic. _The Phenomenon of Change_ [1984] --Henry Francis Lyte (17931847) British hymnwriter. "Eventide" [1847] end page | A - AZ | B - BL | BO - BZ | CA - CZ | DA - DZ | E - F | GA - GZ | HA - HZ | I - K | LA - LZ | M - N | O - Q | RA - RZ | SA - SZ | TA - TZ | U - Z | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The Reviews | |
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