Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter L

Is the author of five collections of poems, The Resurrection Trade (Graywolf Press, 2007), Eat Quite

Is the author of five collections of poems, The Resurrection Trade (Graywolf Press, 2007), Eat Quite Everything You See (Graywolf Press, 2002), Yesterday Had a Man in it (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1998), Ungodliness (Carnegie Mellon University Pre

Known as Les Murray, is an Australian poet, anthologist and critic. His career spans over forty year

Known as Les Murray, is an Australian poet, anthologist and critic. His career spans over forty years, and he has published nearly thirty volumes of poetry, as well as two verse novels and collections of his prose writings.

Was an American music journalist, author and musician. Most famous for his work at Creem and Rolling

Was an American music journalist, author and musician. Most famous for his work at Creem and Rolling Stone magazines, Bangs was and still is regarded as an extremely influential voice in rock criticism

Is an African American writer. She has written in various genres, including African American literat

Is an African American writer. She has written in various genres, including African American literature, romance, women's fiction, crime suspense, dark fantasy/horror and non-fiction. Banks started her career over ten years ago. She was born and raised in Philadelphia and she currently resides in University City, Philadelphia. Leslie writes under various pseudonyms: LA Banks, Leslie Esdaile, Lesli

Was an Australian academic and poet. He was Professor of English at the Royal Military College, Dunt

Was an Australian academic and poet. He was Professor of English at the Royal Military College, Duntroon, the senior lecturer of English and Latin at Canberra University College and chairman of the Literature Censorship Board. [1]In 1911, Allen was appointed as a senior lecturer in classics and English at Sydney Teachers College. After his marriage in 1915 to (sister of Sir Thomas Bavin) he became professor of English at the Royal Military College, Duntroon. During his tenue at Duntroon he produced plays for the Canberra Society of Arts and Literature and wrote poetry and children's verse. In 1931, he became the sole lecturer in English and classics at Canberra University College (now the Australian National University).

Is an American journalist who helped break down the color barrier in baseball as sports writer for t

Is an American journalist who helped break down the color barrier in baseball as sports writer for the Daily Worker.Rodney was born in Manhattan, New York, the third of four children of Isabel Cotton and Max Rodney. The Rodneys moved from the Bronx to Brooklyn when Lester was 6, where his lifelong love of the Dodgers developed. Rodney’s father lost his business, and then the family home, in the 1929 stock market crash that began the Great Depression, an era in which Communism and other radical social philosophies captured the attention of the intelligentsia. Rodney earned a partial track scholarship to Syracuse University, but his family could not afford the other half of his tuition so he did not complete his formal education. To supplement the family income, he took odd jobs, including helping his attorney brother-in-law and chauffeuring rich children to school.

Was one of Ukraine's best-known poets and writers and the foremost woman writer in Ukrainian literat

Was one of Ukraine's best-known poets and writers and the foremost woman writer in Ukrainian literature. Ukrainka was born in 1871 in the town of Novohrad-Volynskyi of Ukraine, which at the time was mostly a part of the Russian Empire. She was the second

Is a Polish actor, poet, writer and composer. For many years he has been a member of cabaret "Piwnic

Is a Polish actor, poet, writer and composer. For many years he has been a member of cabaret "Piwnica pod Baranami", one of the most famous cabarets during the times of People's Republic of Poland.Leszek Dlugosz studied at the Jagiellonian University (Uniwersytet Jagiellonski) in Kraków (major in Polish linguistics) and Polish Higher School of Theater (Polska Wyzsza Szkola Teatralna) (major in acting). He has studied music since childhood and started his public performances at the Jagiellonian University’s Theater Hefajstos. In 1963 he won the Student’s Song Competition (Festiwal Piosenki Studenckiej) in Kraków, and a year later he joined the cabaret "Piwnica Pod Baranami". His debut as a poet took place in 1973 with the publication of Lekcje Rytmiki. In 1978 he began a career of solo performances. He has since published many poetry and lyrics books, and has issued several CDs. He is the leader of an informal Kraków Poetic Club. He has performed around the world.

Polish poet, short-story writer, critic, essayist, scholar, and translator.He graduated from Warsaw

Polish poet, short-story writer, critic, essayist, scholar, and translator.He graduated from Warsaw University (1979). He received his doctorate in 2002. From 1984 to 1995, he was a member of an editorial staff of "Literatura na Swiecie" ("Literature in the World"), a Polish monthly devoted to foreign literature. From 1997 - 1998, he was a lecturer at Warsaw University and a visiting professor at F. Palacký University in Olomouc (Czech Republic). He now teaches at Lódz University in Poland.

English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L. E. L. than by Miss Landon or her married

English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L. E. L. than by Miss Landon or her married name, Mrs. Maclean.Landon was descended from an old Herefordshire family, and was born in Chelsea, London in the United Kingdom. She went to a school in Ch

Was a pseudonym of the South African author Ingrid Winterbach, who primarily writes in Afrikaans. Sh

Was a pseudonym of the South African author Ingrid Winterbach, who primarily writes in Afrikaans. She is married to Andries Gouws and has two daughters. She lives in Durban.She studied Afrikaans, Dutch and Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand. Lettie Viljoen's first novel was titled Klaaglied vir Koos ("Lament for Koos"), and was published in 1984. As Lettie Viljoen she published Erf 1986, Belemmering 1990, Karolina Ferreira 1993 (translated into English by the author herself: The Elusive Moth 2005), and Landskap met vroue en slang 1996. As Ingrid Winterbach she published Buller se Plan 1999, and Niggie 2002.

Is a Chinese poet and calligrapher. Born in the early 1910s in Guangdong Province, China, he spent h

Is a Chinese poet and calligrapher. Born in the early 1910s in Guangdong Province, China, he spent his childhood there and later received his graduate education at the Guangdong Medical Research Institute, until in the late 1920s he married Ho Wing Yuet and settled down in Hong Kong.

Is a writer, radio producer and radio presenter, and media consultant. He is both founder and chief

Is a writer, radio producer and radio presenter, and media consultant. He is both founder and chief executive officer of Say Yay Media, having previously founded and headed the consulting branch of Lev David Media.David studied economics at the University of Natal (now the University of KwaZulu-Natal), before working for the regional radio station East Coast Radio as executive producer of the "Morning Drive Show" in 2001.[1] Having resigned from East Coast Radio in 2005 to pursue other interests, David is now involved in the development of television series, radio features for several radio stations and various new media initiatives. He continues to write humour for the print media.

Was a Jewish Russian writer. In his novels and short stories, Lev Kassil, wrote about contemporary R

Was a Jewish Russian writer. In his novels and short stories, Lev Kassil, wrote about contemporary Russian and Soviet life, about teenagers and their world, about school, sports, cultural life and the war.

Was a Russian writer – novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher – as well as paci

Was a Russian writer – novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher – as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. He was the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family.

Was a prolific writer, journalist and orientalist, an Azerbaijani Jew from Baku, who successfully re

Was a prolific writer, journalist and orientalist, an Azerbaijani Jew from Baku, who successfully reinvented himself as a Muslim prince and wrote in German under the pseudonyms of Essad Bey and Kurban Said.

Was a Soviet Russian author and a dissident. Kopelev was born in Kiev, Ukraine, to a middle-class Je

Was a Soviet Russian author and a dissident. Kopelev was born in Kiev, Ukraine, to a middle-class Jewish family. In 1926, his family moved to Kharkov.

He was a renowned 20th-century Ukrainian composer who pioneered the piano sonata, a teacher, and a p

He was a renowned 20th-century Ukrainian composer who pioneered the piano sonata, a teacher, and a public figure. One of his students at the Lysenko Music Institute was composer Arkady Filippenko. Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky was born on February, 20, 1889

Was an Armenian playwright, novelist, poet, and founder of the Hamazkayin National Cultural Foundati

Was an Armenian playwright, novelist, poet, and founder of the Hamazkayin National Cultural Foundation. He was a life-long member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and is the namesake of the ARF's Shant Student Association.

Is a Grammy Award-winning American stand-up comedian, author, playwright and actor. He is known for

Is a Grammy Award-winning American stand-up comedian, author, playwright and actor. He is known for his comedy style which often simulates a mental breakdown or rant, ridiculing history, politics, religion, trends and cultural phenomena. He hosts Comedy Central's The Root of All Evil and makes regular appearances on The Daily Show delivering his

Is a South African writer and essayist. Nkosi worked for many years in Durban for the magazine Ilang

Is a South African writer and essayist. Nkosi worked for many years in Durban for the magazine Ilanga lase Natal and in Johannesburg for Drum. Nkosi faced severe regulations on his writing due to the publishing regulations found in the Suppression of Communism Act and the Publications and Entertainment Act passed in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1961, he received a scholarship to study at Harvard, and he began his life in exile. Since then, he has been an editor for The New African in London, and the NET in the United States. He became a Professor of Literature and has held positions at the University of Wyoming and the University of California-Irvine, as well as at Universities in Zambia and Warsaw, Poland. Nkosi's work explores themes of politics, relationships, and sexuality. Interestingly, Nkosi joined forces with African powerhouse authors Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka in an interview in the third chapter of Bernth Lindfors' Conversations With Chinua Achebe. In 1978, Nkosi and composer Stanley Glasser wrote a collection of six Zulu - style songs called 'Lalela Zulu', for 'The King's Singers', a group of six white British, male A Capella singers.

Is a writer, social commentator, historian, and independent politician in the Republic of China.

Is a writer, social commentator, historian, and independent politician in the Republic of China.

Was a Chinese poet. He was part of the group of Chinese scholars called the "Eight Immortals of the

Was a Chinese poet. He was part of the group of Chinese scholars called the "Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup" in a poem by fellow poet Du Fu. Li Bai is often regarded, along with Du Fu, as one of the two greatest poets in China's literary history. Approximately 1,100 of his poems remain today. The first translations in a Western language were published in 1862 by Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys in his Poésies de l'Époque des Thang.[1] The English-speaking world was introduced to Li Bai's works by a Herbert Allen Giles publication History of Chinese Literature (1901) and through the liberal, but poetically influential, translations of Japanese versions of his poems made by Ezra Pound.[2]

Was a short-lived Chinese poet of the late Tang Dynasty, known for his unconventional and imaginativ

Was a short-lived Chinese poet of the late Tang Dynasty, known for his unconventional and imaginative style.Li was discouraged by some of his contemporaries to take the Imperial Examination owing to naming taboo: his father's name happened to sound similar to Jinshi. Encouraged by Han Yu, who admired his talent, Li took the examination, but failed it. Despite his distant royal ancestry, Li died a petty and poor official at the age of 27.

Also known as Houzhu of Southern Tang (????, literally "the latter lord of Southern Tang"), personal

Also known as Houzhu of Southern Tang (????, literally "the latter lord of Southern Tang"), personal name Li Yu (??), né Li Congjia (???), courtesy name Chongguang (??; pinyin: chòngguang), posthumously known as Prince of Wu (??), was a Chinese poet and the last ruler of the Southern Tang Kingdom from 961 to 975 during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period; he has been called the "first true master" of the ci form (Indiana Companion p. 555).