Betty Jean Lifton
(1926-2010) Author. Betty Jean Lifton was born in Staten Island, New York, and died in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Gerald S Lesser
(1926-2010) Author. Gerald S. Lesser was born in Queens, New York, and died in Burlington, Massachusetts. He was a chief adviser to the “Sesame Street” television program.
Lee Lockwood
(1932-2010) Journalist. Lee Lockwood was born in New York City and died in Tamarac, Florida. He was a photojournalist known for his documentation of life under Communism.
Les Line
(1935-2010) Editor, writer. Les Line was born in Sparta, Michigan, and died in Sharon, Connecticut. He was editor of the National Audubon Society’s magazine for 25 years and was either writer, editor, or photographer of 35 books.
Donald Lev
Donald Lev, born 1936, lives in High Falls, New York, where he continues to publish HOME PLANET NEWS, the newsprint literary review he & his late wife the poet Enid Dame, founded in 1979. He worked in the wire rooms of the DAILY NEWS & the NEW YORK TIMES, drove a taxi cab for 20 … Continued
Joan Larkin
Joan Larkin’s most recent book, My Body: New and Selected Poems (Hanging Loose Press) received the Publishing Triangle’s 2008 Audre Lorde Award. Her previous books include Housework, A Long Sound, Sor Juana’s Love Poems (translated with Jaime Manrique), and Cold River, winner of a Lambda Award. Larkin lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches in … Continued
John Daido Loori
(1931-2009) Writer. John Daido Loori was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and died in Mount Tremper, New York.
H C Robbins Landon
(1926-2009) Writer. H. C. Robbins was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1926, and died near Toulouse, France, in 2009.
Philomene Long
(1940-2007) Poet. Philomene Long was born in New York City.
Joseph Thomas Langland
(1917-2007) Poet. Joseph Langland lived in New Rochelle, New York, and died there in 2007.