Lafferty, R[aphael]. A[loysius]
1914-2002
American
primarily known as a short story writer

Le Guin, Ursula K.
1929--
Amercian author, editor, critic, and poet

Recommended Reading:

• "Nine Lives"
• The Earthsea Trilogy, a series of fantasies for juveniles which has now grown to five volumes.
• The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula
• The Lathe of Heaven (1971), a homage to Philip K. Dick in which a man can dream changes in reality; was filmed for public television
• The Dispossessed (1974), winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula

Leiber, Fritz
1910-92
American author and editor
Bachelors' in psychology from the University of Chicago
Associate editor of Science Digest 1945-56

wrote science fantasy and heroic fantasy

Recommended Reading:

• The Big Time (1958)
• The Wanderer (1964)

Recommended Reading: "First Contact" (1945)

Lem, Stanislaw
1921-2006
Polish

Lem had an earned medical degree and has written nonfiction on medicine and cybernetics.

Recommended Reading: Solaris (1961)

Recommended Reading:

• Rosemary's Baby (1967)
• The Stepford Wives (1972)
• The Boys from Brazil (1976), about Hitler clones

Lewis, C.S.
1898-1963
born in Belfast
Fellow of Magdalen College Oxford, then professor of medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge

Britsh scholar and essayist well known for his writings on Christianity

Recommended Reading:

• The Perelandra Trilogy
  • Out of the Silent Planet (1938)
  • Perelandra (1943)
  • That Hideous Strength (1945)
• The Chronicles of Narnia, Christian allegory as juvenile fantasy.
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)

Linebarger, Paul
1913-66
American author, political scientist, and military advisor

wrote science fiction under the pseudonym Cordwainer Smith

Lovecraft, H[oward]. P[hillips].
1890-1937

short story writer and follower of Edgar Allen Poe