Maxwell “Max” Alan Lerner
(1902-1992) Writer, journalist. Max Lerner died in Manhattan, New York.
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Laura Jean Libbey
(1862-1924) Novelist, writer. Laura Jean Libbey was born in and lived most of her life in Brooklyn, New York.
Richard Le Gallienne
(1866-1947) Writer, poet. “Volumes in Folio” (1889), lived in Woodstock.
Victor Lasky
(1918-1990) Journalist. “The New York World-Telegram”
A(bbott) J(oseph) Liebling
(1904-1963) Writer. A. J. Liebling was born in Manhattan, New York, and lived at 45 West 10th Street in Manhattan, New York, with his wife, Jean Stafford.
Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury
(1838-1915) Author, professor. He was born in Ovid, NY. His name was associated with Yale University for many years. He wrote “A History of the English Language” (1879), “Life of James Fenimore Cooper” (1882), and edited a volume of writings by Charles Dudley Warner (1904).
Robert Traill Spence Lowell
(1816-1891) Author. His brother was James Russell Lowell.
Howard Lindsay
(1889-1968) Playwright. Howard Lindsay lived and died in Manhattan, New York.
Ringgold (Ring) Wilmer Lardner
(1885-1933) Sportswriter, writer, journalist, columnist, short story writer, humorist. Born into affluence in Niles, Michigan, Ringgold Wilmer Lardner went on to take a position as a society reporter and sportswriter at various newspapers. Mr. Lardner lived in Manhattan, New York.
Sinclair Lewis
(1885-1951) Novelist, writer, playwright, satirist. Sinclair Lewis wrote the novels “Main Street” (1920), “Babbitt” (1922), “Arrowsmith” (1925; Pulitzer Prize, refused), and “Elmer Gantry” (1927), which satirized middle-class life in the 1920s. Lewis was first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1930. He and his wife Dorothy Thompson lived at 17 Wood Lane … Continued