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--Jean de La Bruyθre (1645—1696)
French essayist and moralist.
_Les Caractθres_ [1688] "De la Sociιtι"

--Henry Labouchθre (1831—1912)
British politician and writer.

--Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741—1803)
French soldier and writer.

--Marquis de Lafayette (1757—1834)
French aristocrat who fought with the
American colonists against the
British in the American Revolution.

--Jean de La Fontaine (1621—1695)
French poet.
_Fables_ [1668—1679]

--Fiorello La Guardia (1882—1947)
American politician who served three terms
as mayor of New York City [1933—1945].

--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.
_Maxims_ [1665], tr. Louis Kronenberger [1959]
tr. Leonard Tancock [1959]
_Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [1678]

--La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Franηois-Alexandre-Frιdιric, Duke (1747—1827)
French educator and social reformer.

--John Lahr (1941- )
American critic.

--R.D. Laing (1927—1989)
Scottish psychiatrist.
_The Politics of Experience_ [1967]

--Jean-Baptiste de Monet Lamarck (1744—1829)
French biologist.
_Philosophie zoologique_ (Zoological Philosophy) [1809]

--Alphonse de Lamartine (1790—1869)
French poet and politician.

--Arthur J. Lamb (1870—1928)
American songwriter.
"A Bird in a Gilded Cage" [1900]

--Lady Caroline Lamb (1785—1828)
English wife of 2nd Viscount Melbourne.

--Charles Lamb (1775—1834)
English essayist.
_Old Familiar Faces_ [1798]
_Essays of Elia_ [1823]
_The Last Essays of Elia_ [1833]

--Anne Lamott (1954— )
American author.

--Louis L'Amour [Louis Dearborn LaMoore] (1908—1988)
American author of Western fiction.
_Jubal Sackett_ [1985]
_Education of a Wandering Man_ [1989]

--William J. Lampton (c. 1850—1917)
American journalist and author.

--Ann Landers [Esther Pauline Friedman Lederer]
(1918—2002) Advice columnist.
_Ann Landers Says Truth Is Stranger. . . _ [1968]

--Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (1866—1944)
First commissioner of Major League baseball.

--Alf Landon (1887—1987)
American politician defeated in a landslide by Franklin
D. Roosevelt in the 1936 presidential election.

--Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802—1838)
British poet and novelist.

--Walter Savage Landor (1775—1864)
English poet.
_Imaginary Conversations_ [1824-1853]

--Tom Landry (1924—2000)
Coach of Dallas Cowboys [1960—1988].

--Andrew Lang (1844—1912)
Scottish writer and poet.

--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 (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] (1885—1933)
American writer and satirist.
_The Young Immigrants_ [1920]

--Philip Larkin (1922—1985)
English poet.

--Nella Larsen (1893—1964)
American novelist.

--Bartolomι de Las Casas (1484—1566)
Spanish priest and historian.
_Diary_ [1530s]

--Jeanne Marie Laskas
Author.

--Tommy Lasorda (1927— )
American professional baseball player and manager
of the Los Angeles Dodgers [1976-1996].

--Lassie

--Hugh Latimer (c.1485—1555)
English Protestant martyr.

--Stan Laurel (1890—1965)
American film comedian, born in Britain.

--William L. Laurence (1888—1977)
Lithuanian-born American journalist.

--Jacques du Laurens (1583—1650)

--Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741—1801)
Swiss writer, Protestant pastor, and founder of physiognomics.

--Charles B. Lawlor (1852—1925)
American songwriter.
The "Sidewalks of New York"" [1894 song]

--D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885—1930)
English novelist and poet.
_Studies In Classic American Literature_ [1924]
_Education of the People_

--Gertrude Lawrence (1898—1952)
English stage actress.

--Captain James Lawrence USN (1781—1813)
American naval hero.

--T. E. Lawrence (1888—1935)
English soldier and writer.
_The Seven Pillars of Wisdom_

--Henry Lawson (1867—1922)
Australian writer and poet.

--Emma Lazarus (1849—1887)
American poet.
"The New Colossus" [1883]

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--Stephen Butler Leacock (1869—1944)
Canadian humorist.
__Nonsense Novels_ [1911]
_Essays and Literary Studies_ [1916]
_The Garden of Folly_ [1924]
_The Boy I Left Behind Me_ [1947]

--Frank Leahy (1908—1973)
Coached Notre Dame football team
to 4 national championships.

--William D. Leahy (1875—1959)
American naval officer.

--Edward Lear (1812—1888)
English landscape painter and writer
of nonsense verse.
_Book of Nonsense_ [1846]
_The Owl and the Pussy-Cat_ [1871]

--Denis Leary (1957— )
American actor and comedian.

--Timothy Leary (1920—1996)
American psychologist.

--Leave it to Beaver

--Robert Keith Leavitt (1895?—1967?)
_Voyages and Discoveries_ [1939]

--Gustave Le Bon (1841—1931)
French social psychologist best known for his study of
the psychological characteristics of crowds [EB].
_The Psychology of Revolution_
_Revue d'Anthropologie_ [1879]
_The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind_ [1895]
_Aphorisms of Present Times_ [1913] tr. Alice Widener [1979]

--Le Corbusier (1887—1965)
French architect.

--Fran Lebowitz (1946— )
American humorist.
_Metropolitan Life_ [1978]
_Social Studies_ [1981]

--Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1909—1966)
Polish writer.
_Unkempt Thoughts_, tr. Jacek Galazka [1962]
_More Unkempt Thoughts_ [1968]

--Michael Ledeen
Scholar of American foreign policy.

--Richard Lederer (1938— )
American author.

--Bruce Lee (1940—1973)
Martial arts film actor.

--Gypsy Rose Lee [Rose Louise Hovick] (1914—1970)
American striptease artist.

--Harper Lee (1926— )
American novelist.
_To Kill a Mockingbird_ [1960]

--Henry Lee [Light-Horse Harry Lee] (1756—1818)
American cavalry officer during the American
Revolution and father of Robert E. Lee.

--Nathaniel Lee (c.1653—1692)
English dramatist.

--Robert E. Lee (1807—1870)
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 (1929— )
American writer.
_The Lathe of Heaven_ [1971]
_The Dispossessed_ [1974]
_Always Coming Home_ [1985]

--Ernest Lehman (1915—2005 )
American screenwriter.

--John Lehman (1942— )
American investment banker and writer who served as
Secretary of the Navy [1981—1987].

--Tom Lehrer (1928— )
American songwriter and satirist.

--Carol LeiferCurtis LeMay (1906—1990)
American Air Force officer.
_Mission with LeMay: My Story_ [1965]

--Jack Lemmon (1925—2001)
American screen and stage actor.

--Bob Lemon (1920—2000)
American professional baseball pitcher elected
to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976.

--Mark Lemon (1809—1870)
English playright, author, and lyricist.
_Oh, Would I Were a Boy Again_

--Madeleine L'Engle (1918— )
American writer.
_Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art_

--V.I. Lenin (1870—1924)
Russian revolutionary and first head of the Soviet state (1917—1924).
Biographies and/or related books about:
Edward Meade Earl, ed. _Makers of Modern Strategy_ [1943]

--John Lennon (1940—1980)
English pop singer and songwriter.
--John Lennon (1940—1980) & Paul McCartney (1942— )
English pop singers and songwriters

--Jay Leno (1950— )
American comedian and host of "The Tonight Show" from 1992.

--Daniel De Leon (1852—1914)
Curacao-born Marxist; writer and editor for "The People"
a NYC weekly.

--Stew Leonard
American merchant.

--Leonardo da Vinci (1452—1519)
Florentine painter, sculptor, musician, and scientist.
_The Notebooks_ [1508-1518], tr. Edward MacCurdy

--Leopold II (1835—1909)
King of the Belgians [1865—1909].

--Leopold III (1901-1983)
King of the Belgians [1934-1951 (abdication)].

--Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986)
American playwright and lyricist.

Lerner & Loewe
Alan Jay Lerner (1918—1986) American playwright and lyricist
Frederic Loewe (1901—1988) Austrian-American composer.
_Brigadoon_ [1947]
_Paint Your Wagon_ [1951]
_My Fair Lady_ [1956]
_Camelot_ [1960]
_Gigi_ [1958] {film}

--Max Lerner (1902—1992)
American educator, author, and syndicated columnist.
_The Unfinished Century_ [1959]

--Doris Lessing (1919— )
Iranian-born novelist.
_The Grass Is Singing_ [1950]

--Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729—1781)
German dramatist.
_Emilia Golotti_ [1772]
_Nathan der Weise_ [1779]

--Sir Roger L'Estrange (1616—1704)
English journalist and pamphleteer.

--Kathy Lette (1958— )
Australian author.

--Oscar Levant (1906—1972)
American pianist and actor.

--Sam Levenson (1911—1980)
American humorist.

--Aaron Levenstein (1911—1986)

--Carl Levin (1934— )
American politician.

--Stephen Levine (1937— )
American autor and poet.

--George Henry Lewes (1817—1878)
English philosopher and literary critic.

--Anthony Lewis (1927— )
American liberal author and columnist.

--Bernard Lewis (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 (1898—1963)
British scholar and novelist.
_The Screwtape Letters_ [1941]
_The Abolition of Man_ [1947]
_Mere Christianity_ [1952]
_Of This and Other Worlds_
_Humanitarian Theory of Punishment_

--Meriwether Lewis (1774—1809)
American explorer.

--Sam M. Lewis (1885—1959)
American lyricist.

--Sinclair Lewis (1885—1951)
American novelist and playwright.
_Main Street_ [1920]
_Babbitt_ [1922]
_Elmer Gantry_ [1927]
_It Can't Happen Here_ [1935]
_Gideon Planish_ [1943]

--[Percy] Wyndham Lewis (1882—1957)
Canadian-born British artist and writer.

--Jim Leyland (1944— )
Major-league baseball manager.

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--Li Bo (701—762)
Chinese poet.

--Liberace (1919—1987)
American showman.
_Liberace: An Autobiography_ [1973]

--Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742—1799)
German scientist and drama critic.
_Aphorisms_ [1765—1799]

--A. J. Liebling (1904—1963)
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.

--Life of Riley

--James Lileks (1958— )
American journalist, columnist, and blogger.

--Detlev von Liliencron (1844—1909)
German poet and novelist.

--Rush Limbaugh (1951—)
American radio entertainer.

--Lin Yutang (1895—1976)
Chinese writer and philogist.
_The Importance of Living_ [1938]
_Between Tears and Laughter_ [1943]

--Abraham Lincoln (1809—1865)
American Republican statesman, President [1861—1865].
Biographies and/or related books about:
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 (1906—2001)
American writer and wife of Charles Lindbergh.
_Bring Me a Unicorn_ [1971]

--Charles Lindbergh (1902—1974)
American aviator.
_The Spirit of St. Louis_ [1953]

--John Lindsay (1921—2000)
American congressman [1959—1965] and mayor
of New York City [1966—1973].

--Eric Linklater (1899—1974)
Scottish novelist.
_Juan in America_ [1931]

--George Linley (1798—1865)
English songwriter.

--Linnaeus [Carl von Linnι] (1707—1778)
Swedish botanist and explorer.

--Walter Lippmann (1889—1974)
American journalist.
_A Preface to Politics_ [1914]
_Liberty and the News_ [1920]
_Public Opinion_ [1929]
_A Preface to Morals_ [1929]
_The Public Philosophy_ [1955]

--Franz Liszt (1811—1886)
Hungarian composer and pianist.

--David Livingstone (1813—1873)
Scottish missionary and explorer.
_Missionary Travels and Researches_ [1857]

--Livy [Titus Livius] (59 BC—17 AD)
with Sallust and Tacitus, one of
the three great Roman historians [EB].
_The History of Rome_

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--Richard Llewellyn [Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd]
(1906—1983) Welsh novelist and playwright.
_How Green Was My Valley_ [1939]

--David Lloyd George (1863—1945)
Welsh-born British Prime Minister [1916—1922].

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--Arnold Lobel ( —1987)
Author of children's books.

--John Locke (1632—1704)
English political and educational philosopher.
_An Essay Concerning Human Understanding_ [1690]
_Some Thoughts Concerning Education_ [1693]

--Henry Cabot Lodge Sr. (1850—1924)
Republican U.S. senator [1893—1924].

--Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1902—1985)
American senator and diplomat.

--Frederick Loewe (1901—1988)
German-born American composer.

--James Alexander Logan (1826—1886)
American general and legislator.

--Vince Lombardi (1913—1970)
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 (1902—1977)
Canadian-born bandleader.

--Cesare Lombroso (1835—1909)
Italian criminologist.
_The Man of Genius_ [1891]

--Jack London [John Griffith Chaney] (1876—1916)
American novelist and short-story writer.
_Call of the Wild_ [1903]
_The War of Classes_ [1905]
_White Fang_ [1906]

--Lazarus Long (fictional character in *Robert A. Heinlein novels).

--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882)
American poet.
_A Psalm of Life_ [1839]
_Hyperion_ [1839]
_Ballads and Other Poems_ [1841]
_The Spanish Student_ [1843]
_Evangeline_ [1847]
_The Song of Hiawatha_ [1855]
_Driftwood_ [1857]
_Tales of a Wayside Inn_ [1863]
_The Masque of Pandora_ [1875]
_Morituri Salutamus_ [1875]

--Lord Longford (1905—2001) [Francis Aungier Pakenham, (7th Earl of Longford)]
British Labour politician and philanthropist.

--James Longstreet (1821—1904)
Confederate general of the American Civil War.

--Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884—1980)
Daughter of Theodore Roosevelt.

--Anita Loos (1893—1981)
American novelist and Hollywood screenwriter.
_Gentlemen Prefer Blondes_ [1925]
_No Mother to Guide Her_ [1961]

--Audre Lorde [Audrey Geraldine Lorde] (1934—1992)
American poet.

--Sophia Loren (1934— )
Italian actress.

--Konrad Lorenz (1903—1989)
Austrian zoologist.
_On Aggression_ [1963]

--George Lorimer (1869—1937)
American editor of "The Saturday Evening Post."

--Peter Lorre [Ladislav (Lαszlσ) Lφwenstein] (1904—1964)
Hungarian-born American motion-picture actor.

--Louis XV (1710-1774)
King of France [1715-1774]

--Joe Louis [Joseph Louis Barrow aka The Brown Bomber]
(1914—1981), American boxer and heavyweight champion
[1937—1949]. He retired undefeated.
_My Life Story_ [1947]

--Edmund Love (1912—?)
American military historian.
_Subways Are For Sleeping_ [1957]
_The 27th Infantry Division in World War II_

--Lord Ralph Lovelace (1839—1906)
English writer, alpinist and linguist.

--Richard Lovelace (1618—1657)
English poet.
"To Lucasta, Going to the Wars" [1649]

--James Lovell (1928— )
American NASA astronaut.

--Lyle Lovett (1956— )
American country singer and songwriter.

--Sir David Low (1891—1963)
British political cartoonist.

--Robert Lowe [Viscount Sherbrooke from 1880] (1811—1892)
British Liberal politician.

--Amy Lowell (1874—1925)
American poet. Posthumously won the
Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1926.

--James Russell Lowell (1819—1891)
American poet, critic, essayist, and diplomat.
_A Fable for Critics_ [1848]
_Abraham Lincoln_ [1864]
_The Biglow Papers_ Second Series [1867]
_Political Essays_ [1888]

--Robert Lowell (1917—1977)
American poet.

--Lennie Lower (1903—1947)
Australian journalist.
_How's Luck?_

--William Lowndes (1652—1724)
English politician.

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--Sir John Lubbock (1834—1913)
The First Lord and Baron Avebury who was a
British banker, politician, and archaeologist.

--Sir John Lubbock, 3rd Baronet (1803—1865)
English banker, mathematician and astronomer.

--Lucan [Marcus Annaeus Lucanus] (39—65)
Roman poet and republican patriot.

--George Lucas (1944— )
American screenwriter and producer.
_Star Wars_ [1977] (screenplay)

--Clare Boothe Luce (1903—1987)
American playwright and politician.
_The Women_ [1936]

--Lucian (c. 120—c. 180)
Greek rhetorician, pamphleteer, and satirist.
http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/lucian/lucian_intro.htm

--Lucretius [Titus Lucretius Carus] (99—55 B.C.)
Latin poet and philosopher.
"De rerum natura" (On the Nature of Things)

--Charles Ludlam (1943—1987)
American actor and playwright.

--Martin Luther (1483—1546)
German Protestant theologian.
_The Great Catechism_ [1529]
_Table Talk_

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--John Lyly (1554?—1606)
English prose stylist and playwright.
_Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit_ [1579]
_Euphues and His England_ [1580]
_Maides Metamorphosis_

--Russell Lynes (1910—1991)
American art critic.
_The Phenomenon of Change_ [1984]

--Henry Francis Lyte (1793—1847)
British hymn-writer.
"Eventide" [1847]


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