(1923-2018) Author. Sheila Link was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and died in Palm Desert, California. She atteded the Straubenmuller Textile High School in Manhattan, New York. She wrote a column, “Gear ‘N’ Gadgets,” in Women & Guns magazine for a number of years.
(1942-2018) Author. Gary Lincoff was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and died in Manhattan, New York.
(1939-2018) Author. Julius Lester was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and died in Palmer, Massachusetts. He moved to New York in the early 1960s.
(1929-2018) Author. Ursula K. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, and died in Portland, Oregon. She received a master’s degree in romance literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance from Columbia University in 1952.
(1951-2017) Author. Terry Laughlin was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Albany, New York.
(1929-2017) Editor, author, journalist. Marshall Loeb was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died in Manhattan, New York. He had been an editor at Money and Fortune magazines.
(1930-2017) Playwright. Myrna Lamb was born in Newark, New Jersey, and died in Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey.
(1926-2017) Author, screenwriter. Jerry Lewis was born in Newark, New Jersey, and died in Las Vegas, Nevada.
(1939-2017) Author. Robert S. Leiken was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Boston, Massachusetts.
Annie Rachele Lanzillotto is the author of “L Is For Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir” SUNY Press, a Lambda Literary Award finalist; and the book of poetry “Schistsong,” Bordighera Press. Forthcoming in 2018 from Guernica is a flip book of two volumes of poetry and short prose: “Hard Candy,” and “Pitch, Roll, Yaw.” … Continued