H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) has achieved renown as the leading author of supernatural fiction in the twentieth century. His novels have been translated into a dozen languages, and his work has inspired many contemporary authors in the fields of horror and science fiction, including Stephen King, Peter Straub, Ramsey Campbell, and Philip K. Dick.
Author of…
Lord of a Visible World
An Autobiography in Letters
In Lord of a Visible World, the editors have amassed and arranged the letters of this prolific writer into the story of his life. The volume traces Lovecraft's upbringing in Providence, Rhode Island, his involvement with the pulp magazine Weird Tales, his short-lived marriage, and his later status as the preeminent man of letters in his field.…
- Alison Lake
- Hugh K. Lambert
- Andrew Lang
- Noreen Groover Lape
Assistant professor in the Department of Language and Literature at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia… - Thomas Larson
Contributing writer for the weekly San Diego Reader and facilitator of private memoir-writing groups… - Robin Law
Professor of African history at the University of Stirling… - Nancy Ellen Lawler
Professor Emeritus of Economics and History at Oakton Community College… - Benjamin N. Lawrance
Barber B. Conable, Jr. Endowed Professor of International Studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology… - Ma Ma Lay
- John D. Leary
- Dan Lechay
- Christopher J. Lee
Assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill… - Francis Graham Lee
Chair of the political science department at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia… - Daniel W. Lehman
Professor of English at Ashland University in Ohio… - Peter Lehman
Professor of media arts at the University of Arizona and president of the Society for Cinema Studies… - Charles Leland
- Anton Muziwakhe Lembede
- Linda Schierse Leonard
Founding member of the Inter-Regional Society for Jungian Analysts… - Carol Lerner
Illustrator specializing in natural history… - Harry Levin
- Nehemia Levtzion
Professor of history at the Hebrew University… - Andrea R. Lewis
Executive director of the Dairy Barn Arts Center in Athens, Ohio. … - Dianne Lewis
- I. M. Lewis
- Janet Lewis
Novelist, poet, and short-story writer… - Joanna Lewis
Lecturer in history, University of Durham… - Michael L. Lewis
- J.D. Lewis-Williams
- Colin Leys
- Julia Lin
Born in Shanghai and educated there until the communist takeover in 1949… - Jim Lo Scalzo
- Craig Lockard
- Erica Abrams Locklear
Assistant professor in the Literature and Language department at the University of North Carolina at Asheville… - Gene Logsdon
- John Lonsdale
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge… - Brad D. Lookingbill
Assistant professor of history and director of the honors program at Columbia College in Missouri… - Robert E. Lougy
Associate professor of English at Pennsylvania State University… - H. P. Lovecraft
- Anton Lucas
Author of One Soul One Struggle: Region and Revolution in Indonesia and coauthor, with Dianto Bachriadi, of Merampas Tanah Rakyat: Kasus Tapos dan Cimacan… - William Luhr
Professor of English at Saint Peter’s College in Jersey City, New Jersey… - J. Anthony Lukas
- Charles L. Lumpkins
- Katie Letcher Lyle
Author of more than a dozen books… - Thomas J. Lyon
Editor and author of several books… - Krista Lysack
- Jamie Lytle-Webb
