Letter: L

(1900-1996) Writer. Meridel Le Sueur lived, as a young woman, in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York.

(1923-1997) Politically active poet. Denise Levertov published her first book of poems in England in 1946. She married and moved to America in 1947, and settled in New York City in 1948. She lived at 52 Barrow Street and 727 Greenwich Street, both in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York. She also lived at 299 West … Continued

(1879-1931) Poet, artist. (Nicholas) Vachel Lindsay was born in Springfield, Illinois, in 1879. Lindsay graduated from high school in 1897 and attended Hiram College for three years. Seeking to become an artist, he went first to Chicago and then to New York City, but both attempts met with little success. He studied art at the … Continued

(1889-1974) Editor, critic. After attending the private schools of New York City, he entered Harvard in 1906, where he devoted most of his time to the study of philosophy and psychology. His first book, “A Preface to Politics” (1913), was published when its author was twenty-three years old. Lippmann became associate editor of “The New … Continued

(1886-1947) Illustrator, writer of children’s stories. Hugh Lofting was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. He came to America and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1904-05 to study engineering. He returned to England complete his education at the London Polytechnic in 1906-07. He became a civil engineer and traveled through Africa, the West Indies, … Continued

(1915-2002)Writer, folklorist. “Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and ‘Inventor of Jazz’” (1973), lived at 215 W. 98th Street in Manhattan, New York.

(1898-1936) Spanish poet, playwright and dramatist. Attended Columbia University, living in Furnald Hall, for a year. The poetry, passion, and violence of his work and his own tragic and bloody death, brought him enduring international acclaim. A joyous, versatile person, he was an accomplished musician and had an enormously original theatrical imagination. GarcÍa Lorca’s works … Continued

(1934-1992) Poet, writer, essayist, novelist, and teacher. Audre Lorde was born in New York City, and grew up in Manhattan, New York, where she attended Catholic school. She was a Hunter graduate in 1959 with a bachelor’s degree. In 1961 she received a Masters in library science from Columbia University and worked as a librarian … Continued

(1874-1925) Poet. Amy Lowell lived at 61 Washington Square, in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York.

(1917-1977)(Robert Traill Spence Lowell, IV) Poet. Robert Lowell lived in Manhattan, New York, and served a jail sentence as a conscientious objector in the 1940s in a New York City jail; he died in a taxicab coming to Manhattan, New York, to see his former wife Eliazbeth Hardwick. He was also married to Jean Stafford. … Continued