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

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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

Leeza Mangaldas

Leeza Mangaldas is India's foremost sex education content creator. She established her now immensely popular sex-ed platforms on YouTube and Instagram in 2017 as a passion project, alongside her work as a freelance journalist and TV presenter, hoping to help normalize conversations around sexuality, sexual health, gender and the body.

Leil Lowndes

Leil Lowndes, an internationally recognized communications expert, has conducted communication seminars for major US corporations, foreign governments and the US Peace Corps. She has appeared on hundreds of television and radio programmes, and is the author of the bestselling How to Make Anyone Fall in Love with You and How

Lekshmy Rajeev

Lekshmy Rajeev is a poet, columnist and translator. She is the daughter of Late Adv. K G Sujathan and Prasanna. Her poems have been published in reputed literary magazines and journals such as Indian Literature, Poetry Chain, The Little Magazine, Deccan Herald Sunday Magazine, and many websites. Her volume of

Lena Dunham

At only 23 years old, Dunham wrote, directed and starred in the multi-award winning ‘Tiny Furniture’. She now stars in the HBO series, ‘Girls’, which she created and also serves as an executive producer and writer. Dunham graduated from Oberlin College in 2008 with a degree in Creative Writing and

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828. He died in 1910 having written some of the most timeless works in all of literature, including War and Peace, and Anna Karenina.

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Leslie & Gray Kelly

New York Times bestselling author Leslie Kelly has written dozens of books and novellas for Harlequin Blaze and HQN Books. Known for her sparkling dialogue, fun characters and steamy sensuality, she has been honored with numerous awards, including a National Readers’ Choice Award, a Colorado Award of Excellence, a Golden

Leslie Kelly

Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll (1832–1898), was an English writer, mathematician, logician, deacon and photographer. He is most famous for his timeless classics, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. His work falls within the genre of ‘literary nonsense’, and he is renowned for his use of

Liam Vaughan

Liam Vaughan is an award-winning investigative journalist and author with Bloomberg and Businessweek magazine

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Liji Ravindran

Liji Ravindran spent 15 years in journalism and public relations before switching to a career in teaching. Her first work was published at the age of 12 – a 10-line poem on a rainbow, co-authored with two besties. She has now graduated to djinns and writes on her own.

Lijia Zhang

Lijia Zhang was born in Nanjing, China in 1964. Educated both in Chinaand the UK, she currently lives in Beijing with her two daughters andworks as a freelance journalist.

Linda Chapman

Linda Chapman has written a huge range of bestselling children’s fiction series, including My Secret Unicorn, Rainbow Magic, Star Friends, Unicorn Academy and Not Quite a Mermaid and The Secret Garden movie novelisation. She brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the novelisation of The Railway Children Return.

Linda Miller Nicholson

Linda Miller Nicholson is an internationally recognized pasta powerhouse whose work has been featured in Saveur, Good Housekeeping, Buzzfeed, Elle, the BBC, and Business Insider, to name a few. In the past year she has made pasta art for Katy Perry, Mario Batali and the cast of The Chew, and

Linda Wallace

Wanda Wallace, Phd., is Managing Partner of Leadership Forum Inc. She coaches, facilitates, and speaks on improving leadership by improving the quality of conversations. She specializes in helping women and men get to the top, stick, and thrive. She works with world-renowned financial services companies and other blue-chip clients. Previously,

Lindsey Pollak

Lindsey Pollak is a New York Times bestselling author, keynote speaker, and one of the world’s leading experts on millennials and the multigenerational workplace. She is the author of Getting from College to Career: Your Essential Guide to Succeeding in the Real World and Becoming the Boss: New Rules for

Linwood Barclay

Linwood Barclay is an international bestselling crime and thriller author with over twenty critically acclaimed novels to his name, including the phenomenal number one bestseller No Time For Goodbye. Every Linwood Barclay book is a masterclass in characterisation, plot and the killer twist, and with sales of over 7 million

Lior Suchard

Lior Suchard is a supernatural entertainer and mentalist with an extraordinary talent for mind reading, thought influencing and telekinesis. He first created a storm when he was selected as the winner of highly rated international TV show The Successor to officially take over the celebrated mystifier, Uri Geller.

Lisa Childs

Ever since Lisa Childs read her first romance novel (a Harlequin story, of course) at age eleven, all she ever wanted was to be a romance writer. With over forty novels published with Harlequin, Lisa is living her dream. She is an award -winning, bestselling romance author.