Legh Richmond (1772–1827) was a Church of England clergyman and writer. He is noted for tracts, narratives of conversion that innovated in the relation of stories of the poor and female subjects, and which were subsequently much imitated. He was also known for an influential collection of letters to his children, powerfully stating an evangelical attitude to childhood of the period, and by misprision sometimes taken as models for parental conversation and family life, for example by novelists, against Richmond's practice.
Leigh Douglass Brackett was an American science fiction writer known as "the Queen of Space Opera." She was also a screenwriter, known for The Big Sleep (1946), Rio Bravo (1959), and The Long Goodbye (1973). She also worked on an early draft of The Empire Strikes Back (1980), elements of which remained in the film; she died before it went into production. In 1956, her book The Long Tomorrow made her the first woman ever shortlisted for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, and, along with C. L. Moore, one of the first two women ever nominated for a Hugo Award. In 2020, she won a Retro Hugo for her novel The Nemesis From Terra, originally published as "Shadow Over Mars".
Leitch Ritchie (1800–1865) was a Scottish novelist and journalist. He was born at Greenock and worked as a clerk in Glasgow, but about 1820 adopted literature as his profession.
Leo Belmont, właściwie Leopold Blumental – polski eseista, poeta, prozaik, znawca i tłumacz literatury francuskiej i rosyjskiej, założyciel Polskiego Związku Esperantystów.
Leo Tolstoi (ven. Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й, Lev Nikolajevitš Tolstoi kuuntele ääntämys (ohje)); (9. syyskuuta (J: 28. elokuuta) 1828 Jasnaja Poljana, Tulan kuvernementti, Venäjän keisarikunta – 20. marraskuuta (J: 7. marraskuuta) 1910 Astapovo, Rjazanin kuvernementti, Venäjän keisarikunta) on yksi tunnetuimmista venäläisistä kirjailijoista.
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909.
