L. Frank Baum

Lyman Frank Baum (1856–1919) was an American children’s book author, best known for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and several other works (55 novels in total, plus four “lost” novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts,

L. M Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942) was a Canadian author best known for the ‘Avonlea’ series of novels, beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908 to great success. Montgomery published 20 novels as well as 500 short stories and poems, mostly centring around Canada, and Prince Edward Island in particular.

L.S. Dugdale

Lydia Dugdale MD, MAR, is associate professor of medicine and director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at Columbia University. Prior to her 2019 move to Columbia, she was Associate Director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics and founding Co-Director of the Program for Medicine, Spirituality, and Religion at

La Boite a Bulles

Lakshmi Devnath

Lakshmi Devnath is a well-known researcher and writer in Carnatic music. She is a trained vainika and vocalist with a degree in music. She has to her credit more than a hundred articles on related subjects that have been published in leading dailies and journals.

Lakshmi Holmstrom

Malathi Maithri has published four collections of poetry. Salma is a widely recognized in Tamil literary circles, a politician and an activist. Kutti Revathi has published several books of poetry. Sukirtharani has published five books of poetry. Lakshmi Holmstrom has received the Crossword Book Award twice and the Iyal Award

Lakshmy Ramanathan

Lakshmy Ramanathan worked as a journalist with Daily News & Analysis and The Times of India. She also wrote the book For Bumpier Times: An Indian Mother's Guide to 101 Pregnancy & Childcare Practices.

Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of

Sanjeev Chopra (Director, LBSNAA) holds a PhD in Management, besides degrees in law, history and literature. Alankrita Singh (Deputy Director, LBSNAA) is an officer of the Indian Police Service. Ankur Bisen (Sr Vice President, Technopak Advisors) holds an MBA from Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK “

Lalit Kumar

Lalit Kumar teaches English at Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, University of Delhi. He has co-translated the Hindi bestseller Twelfth Fail (HarperCollins, 2021) into English and is currently co-editing a book on Amaranatha Jha for the Sahitya Akademi. He holds a doctorate in Maithili literary culture and the coming of print

LALITA IYER

Larry Gonick

LARRY GONICK has been creating comics that explain history, science, and other big subjects for over thirty years–he wrote his first guide in 1971: Blood From a Stone: A Cartoon Guide to Tax Reform. He has been a calculus professor at Harvard, a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT and

Larry/ Huffman Gonick

LARRY GONICK has been creating comics that explain history, science, and other big subjects for over thirty years–he wrote his first guide in 1971: Blood From a Stone: A Cartoon Guide to Tax Reform. He has been a calculus professor at Harvard, a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT and

Lars Kepler

Lars Kepler is a No.1 bestselling international sensation, whose Joona Linna thrillers have sold more than 10 million copies in 40 languages. The first book in the series, The Hypnotist, was selected for the 2012 Richard and Judy Book Club and the most recent, The Sandman, was one of the

Laura Hillenbrand

Laura Hillenbrand is the author of the number-one bestseller Seabiscuit, which won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. It was made into a major international film, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Hillenbrand's New Yorker article, 'A Sudden Illness,' won the 2004 National

Laura Jane Williams

Laura Jane Williams is a writer whose work has appeared everywhere from the Guardian to Buzzfeed, Stylist, Closer, the Metro and the Telegraph. She is Grazia’s former dating columnist, and the author of two previous works of non-fiction: Ice Cream for Breakfast and Becoming. Our Stop is her first novel.

Laura T. Murphy

LauraT. Murphy is Professor of Human Rights and Contemporary Slavery at the HelenaKennedy Centre for International Justice at Sheffield Hallam University in theUK. She is the author of The New Slave Narrative: The Battle OverRepresentations of Contemporary Slavery, Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day SlaveNarratives, and Metaphor and the Slave Trade in

Lauren Canan

Lauren Canan, born and raised amid the cattle ranches of Texas, climbed a fence and jumped onto the back of her first horse at age three. She still maintains the punishment was worth the experience. She grew up listening to her dad tell stories of make-believe and was always encouraged

Lauren Weisberger

Lauren Weisberger is the author of The Devil Wears Prada, which spent more than a year on the New York Times hardcover and paperback bestseller lists. The film version starring Meryl Streep won a Golden Globe Award and grossed over $300 million worldwide. Her successive novels were also Sunday Times

Laurent Gayer

Laurent Gayer is a research fellow at the Centre national de la recherchescientifi que (CNRS), currently posted to the Centre d'etudes et derecherches internationales (CERI-Sciences Po), Paris. His majorpublications include Armed Militias of South Asia: Fundamentalists,Maoists and Separatists, and Muslims in Indian Cities: Trajectories ofMarginalisation, which was co-edited with Christophe

Lavanya R.N.

Lavanya Regunathan Fischer

Lavanya works as a lawyer and moonlights as a philosopher. She lives in London with her husband and daughter.

Lawrence Burns

Lawrence Burns served as corporate vice president of research, development and planning at General Motors, where he oversaw GM’s advanced technology and innovation programs as well as corporate strategy. He was also a professor of engineering practice at the University of Michigan and led the Program for Sustainable Mobility at

Laxmi Padma

Padma Lakshmi is an award-winning cookbook author, an internationally renowned actress and model, and the host of Bravo’s highly acclaimed Top Chef. She is the author of Easy Exotic, recipes for a delicious low-fat diet. She lives in New York.

Layla AlAmmar

Layla AlAmmar grew up in Kuwait, with an American mother and a Kuwaiti father. She has a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh. Her work has appreaed in the Evening Standard, Quail Bell Magazine and Aesthetica Magazine, where she was a finalist for the Creative Writing Award

Leah Franqui

Leah Franqui is a graduate of Yale University and received an MFA at NYU-Tisch. She is a playwright and the recipient of the 2013 Goldberg Playwriting Award, and also wrote a web series for which she received the Alfred Sloan Foundation Screenwriting award (aftereverafterwebseries.com). A Puerto Rican-Jewish Philadelphia native, Franqui

Leah Martyn

Lee Child

Lee Child is one of the world’s leading thriller writers. He was born in Coventry, raised in Birmingham, and now lives in New York. It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. His books consistently achieve the

Lee Kuan Yew

Lee Kuan Yew was born in Singapore on September 16, 1923, a third-generation descendant of immigrants from China's Guangdong Province. He read law at Cambridge University, England. In 1954 he formed the People's Action Party, which won the first Singapore general election five years later. Lee became the country's first

Leelawati Mahapatra

Leelawati and K.K. Mohapatra have published several translations from the Oriya, among them Fakir Mohan Senapati's Selected Stories (1995), Laxmikanta Mahapatra's One-Eyed Uncle (1997), and The HarperCollins Book of Oriya Short Stories (1998) along with Sudhanshu Mohanty. They have also co-edited along with Nrusingha Tripathy The Macmillan Book of Short

Leena Varghese

Leena Varghese loves to dabble in words to create multidimensional characters and an alternate reality. She has a postgraduate degree in English Literature, a Bachelors in Education and a Diploma in Fine Arts. Leena illustrates books for children and loves to experiment with various media including oils, water colours and