Rhoda Lerman
(1936-2015) Writer. Rhoda Lerman was born in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York, and died in Port Crane, New York.
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Paul James Lioy
(1947-2015) Paul Lioy was born in Passaic, New Jersey, and died in Newark, New Jersey.
Monica Lewis
(1922-2015) Author. Monica Lewis was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died in Los Angeles, California. She moved with her family to New York when she was eleven.
Ira Lewis
(1932-2015) Playwright. Ira Lewis was born in Newark, New Jersey, and died in Edison, New Jersey. He was a playwright whose plays were produced on Broadway in New York City. He lived most of his life in Greenwich Village, New York, New York.
Philip Levine
(1928-2015) Poet. Philip Levine was born in Detroit, Michigan, and died in Fresno, California. He served as United States poet laureate from 2011 to 2012. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his collection “The Simple Truth”.
Walter Lord
(1917-2002) Author. Walter Lord was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and died in Manhattan, New York.
John Leggett
(1917-2015) Writer, novelist. John Leggett was born in New York, New York, and died in Napa, California. He was the former director of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and co-founder and director of the Napa Valley Writer’s Conference.
Walter Liedtke
(1945-2015) Author. Walter Liedtke was a curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was killed in a train crash in Valhalla, New York.
Clare Boothe Luce
(1903-1987) Playwright. Clare Boothe Luce was born in New York City and died in Washington, District of Columbia.
Herbert Roger Lottman
(1927-2014) Biographer. Herbert Lottman was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Paris, France.