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James Heller Levinson

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Heller Levinson was born in New York State and has a degree in Philosophy from New York University and a Masters Degree in Writing from USC. He has worked as a dog trainer, a jazz drummer, a construction worker, and for many years made a living as a textile salesman. He has published in over … Continued

Ernest Lehman

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(1915-2005) Screenwriter. Ernest Lehman was born in New York City in 1915 and died in Los Angeles, California in 2005. He graduated from City College of New York in 1937. He received six Academy Award nominations for his screenwriting.

Ernesto Lecuona

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(1895/96-1963) Composer, song writer. Lecuona was born in Cuba in 1895 or 1896 and died in the Canary Islands in 1963. Songs include, “Siboney,” “Malagueña,” and “Andalucia.” Lecuona’s final resting place is in the Gate Of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York.

Lawrence W Levine

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Historian. Lawrence W. Levine was born in Manhattan, New York in 1933. Mr Levine was a graduate of, and taught briefly at, the City University of New York. He died in California in 2006. Works include, “The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture and History” (1996), “Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought … Continued

John Logan

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(1923-1987) John Logan was born in Red Oak, Iowa, in 1923. From 1966 to 1985, he was an English professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He died in 1987 in San Francisco, California.

Dick Lourie

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Dick Lourie’s most recent collection (2009), If the Delta Was the Sea, was published by Hanging Loose Press. Lourie is a blues musician as well as a poet, and this book of poems about the Mississippi Delta is the result of his experiences playing music, interviewing local people, and researching history in the small Mississippi … Continued

Diane Lockward

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Diane Lockward is the author of three poetry books, most recently, Temptation by Water. Her previous books are What Feeds Us, which received the 2006 Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize, and Eve’s Red Dress. Her poems have been included in such anthologies as Poetry Daily: 360 Poems from the World’s Most Popular Poetry Website and … Continued