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 | L. Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 - May 6, 1919) He was an American author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with illustrator W. W. Denslow, of one of the most popular books ever written in American children's literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, better known today as simply The Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a plethora of other works, and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen. |
 | L.M. Montgomery (November 30, 1874 - April 24, 1942) Lucy Maud Montgomery, (always called Maud by family and friends) and publicly known as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables. |
 | Lance Berger Lance A. Berger is a management consultant specializing in talent management, change management and compensation. A former general partner for the largest compensation practice worldwide at The Hay Group, he co-wrote and co-edited The Compensation Handbook, The Change Management Handbook, and Deengineering The Corporation. |
 | Larry Bossidy Born in 1935 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts and graduated from Colgate University with a B.A. in economics, Larry Bossidy, executive businessman and author, began a stellar 34-year career at General Electric, which he joined in 1957 as a trainee. |
 | Laura Hillenbrand She is the author of the acclaimed Seabiscuit: An American Legend, a non-fiction account of the career of the great racehorse Seabiscuit, for which she won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2001. |
 | Laura Ingalls Wilder (February 7, 1867 - February 10, 1957) Laura Ingalls Wilder (February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957) was an American author. She wrote a series of historical fiction books for children based on her childhood in a pioneer family. Her best-known book is Little House on the Prairie. |
 | Laura Numeroff She was born in 1953, in Brooklyn, New York. She was surrounded by art, music, and books. |
 | Laura Shaine Cunningham Laura Shaine Cunningham is the author of the acclaimed memoirs A Place in the Country and Sleeping Arrangements , and the novels Dreams of Rescue and Beautiful Bodies . |
 | Lawrence Block He is an acclaimed contemporary American crime writer best known for two long-running New York-set series, about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, respectively. Block was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1993. |
 | Lee J. Colan Lee J. Colan, Ph.D is the Founder and President of the L Group. He is a high-energy organizational effectiveness consultant and executive advisor with 15 years of different business experience. He has created a track record of successfully managing changes associated with fast organizational growth. |
no image | Lemony Snicket Pseudonymous author of A Series of Unfortunate Events Lemony Snicket is the pseudonym novelist Daniel Handler used while writing his sequence of darkly comic children's books known as A Series of Unfortunate Events. The 13 novels in the series relate the hard-luck history of the Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Klaus and Sunny. |
 | Leo Lionni (1910 - 1999) European/American author and illustrator of children's books |
 | Leo Tolstoy (August 28, 1828 - November 7, 1910) Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, commonly referred to in English as Leo (Lyof, Lyoff) Tolstoy, was a Russian writer – novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher – as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. He was the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. |
no image | Leonard Mlodinow While a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley, and on the faculty at Caltech, he developed (with N. Papanicolaou) a new type of perturbation theory for eigenvalue problems in quantum mechanics. Later, as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysik in Munich, Germany, he did pioneering work (with M. Hillery) on the quantum theory of dielectric media. |
 | Leslie Gaines-Ross She is one of the world's most widely recognized experts on CEO reputation -- how CEO reputations are built, maintained, enhanced and defended. Dr. Gaines-Ross leads Burson-Marsteller's Reputation Consulting Services Group and spearheaded the first comprehensive research on CEO reputation and its impact on corporate reputation and performance. |
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 | Linda Papadopoulos Dr. Linda Papadopoulos (born February 3, 1973) is an English-Greek-American psychologist based in England. She was course director of the MSc in counselling psychology at London Guildhall University, and is the author of numerous health books such as The Man Manual, which tries to explains the workings of men's minds and author of Mirror Mirror: Dr. Linda's Body Image Revolution, a book on body image. |
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 | Liz Perle Liz Perle spent more than twenty years in the New York publishing world before hopping the fence to become an author. She served as Associate Publisher of Bantam Books and Vice President and Publisher of Addison Wesley, Prentice Hall Press/Simon & Schuster, and William Morrow/Avon Books. |
 | Lois Lenski (Oct 14, 1893 - Sept 11, 1974) She was a popular and prolific American writer of children's and young adult fiction. In 1946 she was awarded the Newbery Medal for Strawberry Girl. |
 | Lois Lowry Lois A. Lowry (born March 20, 1937) is an author of children's literature who has been awarded the Newbery Medal twice: first for Number the Stars in 1990, and again in 1994 for The Giver, her most famous and controversial work. |
no image | Loren B. Belker Loren B. Belker was an executive in a major midwestern insurance company for nearly 30 years, and the author of the four previous editions of The First Time Manager |
 | Lorenzino De Medici (March 23, 1514 - February 26, 1548) Lorenzino de' Medici, also spelled Lorenzaccio de' Medici, was an Italian writer remembered primarily as the assassin of Alessandro de' Medici, duke and ruler of Florence. |
 | Louis Owens (1948 - July 25, 2002) Louis Owens was a novelist and scholar of Choctaw, Cherokee and Irish descent. He is known for a series of Native-themed mystery novels and for his contributions to the then-fledgling field of Native American Studies. Owens committed suicide in 2002. |
no image | Louis P. Crosier LOUIS P. CROSIER, the author of Selling Your Business: The Transition from Entrepreneur to Investor is a Principal at Windward Investment Management and serves as a member of Windward's Investment Committee. His responsibilities include managing client portfolios and overseeing the firm's investment consulting practice. |
 | Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888) She was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women, which she wrote in 1868. This novel is loosely based on her childhood experiences with her three sisters. |
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 | Louise Egan She is a corporate language trainer who helps native English speakers and foreign speakers better express themselves orally and in writing. |
 | Louise Erdrich Karen Louise Erdrich is a Native American author of novels, poetry, and children's books. She is an enrolled member of the Anishinaabe nation (also known as Ojibway and Chippewa). She is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant Native writers of the second wave of what critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance. |
