Lizzie Post

LIZZIE POST, a great-great granddaughter of Emily Post, is the youngest member of the Post family. A graduate of the University of Vermont with a bachelor of science in art education, one of her achievements was designing and implementing an art curriculum helping teenagers develop self-awareness and healthy relationships. She

Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari

Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari (1949–2018) spent nearly five decades in both governmental and non-governmental positions working to garner international support for the Tibetan cause and resolve the Tibetan–Chinese conflict. He was the special envoy of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and led nine rounds of negotiations with the People's Republic

Lopa Ghosh

Lopa Ghosh has meandered through literature, journalism, street theatre, a London stint seeking causality and Sylvia Plath's house, severe delusion and serious feminism. Revolt of the Fish Eaters is her first book. Ghosh now lives and works in Delhi.

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Lori Deschene

Lori Deschene is the founder of Tiny Buddha (www.tinybuddha.com), an online community that enables participants to share their experiences and insights, to help themselves and others. Since she launched Tiny Buddha in the fall of 2009, Lori has helped over 1,200 contributors share their stories with more than 55 million

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Lorna Sage

Lorna Sage was a professor of English at the University of East Anglia. Her previous books include Women in the House of Fiction, The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English, and a short monograph on Angela Carter. Lorna Sage died in Januray 2001

Lorraine Pascale

A high-flying international supermodel in the 1990s, Lorraine Pascale has now turned her hand to baking. She runs the successful Cupcake Bakehouse in Covent Garden and makes cakes for the rich and famous. Her client list includes Madonna and Marco Pierre White and her celebration cakes are now available in

Louann Lofton

LOUANN LOFTON has been with The Motley Fool since January 2000, first as a writer, then as the managing editor for online content. She lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. TOM GARDNER, along with his brother David, cofounded The Motley Fool, a multimedia financial education company, in 1993. They have coauthored

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Louis Gerstner

Louis V. Gerstner Jr., formerly head of RJR Nabisco and American Express, is the CEOof IBM

Louisa George

A lifelong reader of most genres, Louisa George discovered romance novels later than most, but immediately fell in love with the intensity of emotion, the high drama and the family focus of Mills & Boon Medical Romance.With a Bachelor's Degree in Communication and a nursing qualification under her belt, writing

Louisa Heaton

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott was a 19th-century American novelist best known for her novel, Little Women, as well as its well-loved sequels, Little Men and Jo's Boys. Little Women is renowned as one of the very first classics of children’s literature, and remains a popular masterpiece today.

Louise Allen

Louise Fuller

Louise Fuller was a tomboy who hated pink and always wanted to be the prince-not the princess! Now she enjoys creating heroines who aren't pretty pushovers but are strong, believable women. Before writing for Mills & Boon she studied literature and philosophy at university and then worked as a reporter

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Loveleen Kacker

A leader with vision, skill and accomplishment, Loveleen has worked with governments, institutions and organizations. She brings in over three decades of planning and administrative experience, from a number of senior roles that she played in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), where she made impactful contributions in the areas of

Lt Bharati ‘Asha’ Sahay Choudhry

Lt Bharati ‘Asha' Sahay Choudhry was born in Kobe, Japan, in 1928 and joined the Rani of Jhansi Regiment of the Indian National Army at the age of seventeen. Her father, Anand Mohan Sahay, was a minister in the cabinet of the Azad Hind Government and a political adviser to

Luan Goldie

Luan Goldie is a primary school teacher, and formerly a business journalist. She has written several short stories and is the winner of the Costa Short Story Award 2017 for her short story ‘Two Steak Bakes and Two Chelsea Buns’. She was also shortlisted for the London Short Story Prize

Lubaina Bandukwala

Lubaina Bandukwala has a Master's degree in Mass Communication from the University of Houston. Her words have been wandering through various writing genres including newspapers, magazines, television and documentaries, until they found a home in children's media products. “

Lucie Greene

Lucie Greene is the Worldwide Director of the Innovation Group at J. Walter Thompson, J. Walter Thompson's in-house futures and innovation think tank. She leads the Innovation Group's ongoing research into emerging global consumer behaviors, cultural changes and sector innovation, with regular deep-dive studies and daily insights.

Lucy Ellis

Kat Cantrell read her first Harlequin novel in third grade and has been scribbling in notebooks since then. She writes smart, sexy books with a side of sass. She's a former Harlequin So You Think You Can Write winner and an RWA Golden Heart Award finalist. Kat, her husband and

Lucy Foley

Lucy Foley studied English Literature at Durham and UCL universities. She then worked for several years as a fiction editor in the publishing industry – during which time she wrote her debut novel, The Book of Lost and Found. Lucy now writes full-time. During the year she divides her time

Lucy Gordon

Lucy Gordon cut her writing teeth on magazine journalism, interviewing many of the world's most interesting men. She's had many unusual experiences, which have often provided the background for her books. Once, while staying in Venice, she met a Venetian who proposed in two days and they've been married ever

Lucy Maud 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.

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Luke Patey

Luke Patey is a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies. He has written for The Guardian and The Hindu, and is co-editor of Sudan Looks East: China, India, and the Politics of Asian Alternatives.