Lyn Macdonald, was a British military historian, one of relatively few women in the field. Macdonald was best known for a series of books on the First World War that draw on first hand accounts of surviving veterans.
Lyn McConchie is a New Zealand writer of speculative fiction, picture books for children, a nonfiction humour series, a number of standalone books and many short stories, articles, poems, opinion pieces, and reviews.
Lynceus of Samos brother of the historian Duris of Samos, was a classical Greek author of comedies, letters and humorous anecdotes. He lived in the late 4th and early 3rd centuries BC and was a pupil of Theophrastus. His works, especially his letters and the essay Shopping for Food, show a special interest in gastronomy. He was also the addressee of an important letter by Hippolochus on dining in Macedon. He would be practically unknown if it were not for numerous quotations from his works in the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus.
Lynda Garland is a scholar and professor at the University of Queensland. Her research focuses on female images in the Late Antiquity period and Byzantine Society.
Lynda La Plante, CBE is an English author, screenwriter and former actress, best known for writing the Prime Suspect television crime series.
Lynda Madaras is an educator and author. She has written a number of books on puberty including two that are on the American Library Association's list of 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books 1990-2000. Her books have won numerous awards, including recognition as an American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults. Her other titles include My Body, My Self for Girls, My Body, My Self for Boys, Ready, Set, Grow!, On Your Mark, Get Set, Grow!, Womancare, Child's Play, and The Alphabet Connection.
Lynda Page is a saga author based in the Lincolnshire village of Epworth, England, where she lives on a daughter's holiday park. She has written over 20 critically praised saga novels, which reached the bestseller charts of WH Smiths and The Sunday Times.
Lyndal Anne Roper is a historian. She was born in Melbourne, Australia. She works on German history of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and has written a biography of Martin Luther. Her research centres on gender and the Reformation, witchcraft, and visual culture. In 2011 she was appointed to Regius Chair of History at the University of Oxford, the first woman and first Australian to hold this position.
Lyndall Gordon is a British-based biographical and former academic writer, known for her literary biographies. She is a senior research fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford.
Lyndsay Faye is an American author. Her first novel was the Sherlockian pastiche Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson and she has been nominated for the Edgar Award for The Gods of Gotham and Jane Steele. The Gods of Gotham was named "the year’s best mystery novel" by the American Library Association.
