Leslie Land
(1947-2013) Writer. Leslie Land was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and died in Poughkeepsie, New York. She wrote a newspaper column “Good Food” for 20 years and more than 500 articles for The New York Times.
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David Saul Landes
(1924-2013) Author. David S. Landes was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Haverford, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1942 and taught at Columbia University from 1952 to 1958.
Lansing Lamont
(1931-2013) Journalist, historian. Lansing Lamont was born and died in Manhattan, New York.
Kennett Love
(1924-2013) Writer. Kennett Love was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and died in Southampton, New York. He was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times.
(Joseph) Anthony Lewis
(1927-2013) Writer. Anthony Lewis was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Ellen Deborah Levine
(1939-2012) Author. Ellen Levine was born and died in New York. She was known as an author of children’s books.
Irving Raskin Levine
(1922-2009) Television journalist. Irving R. Levine worked for more than forty years at NBC and was best known as an international correspondent.
Gerda Lerner
(1920-2013) Historian. Gerda Lerner was born in Vienna, Austria, and died in Madison, Wisconsin. She received a doctorate in history from Columbia University.
Claude-Anne Lopez
(1920-2012) Writer. Claude-Anne Lopez was born in Brussels, Belgium, and died in New Haven, Connecticut. She immigrated to the United States around 1940 and settled in New York before moving with her husband to New Haven, Connecticut.
Harry Levinson
(1922-2012) Author. Harry Levinson was born in Port Jervis, New York, and died in Delray Beach, Florida.