Lauraine Snelling is an author of Christian fiction and has published more than 80 titles since 1982, among them popular historical fiction series revolving around Norwegian immigration and inspired by her own heritage. In 2012, Snelling was inducted into the Scandinavian-American Hall of Fame, a signature event at Norsk Høstfest. Her books have sold more than 5 million copies. Besides writing books and articles, she teaches at writers' conferences across the country. She and her husband make their home in Tehachapi, California.
Laurajane Smith is a Heritage and Museum Studies scholar. Among Smith's publications that examine the politics of heritage, she edited the book Uses of Heritage. She published the book Emotional Heritage: Visitor Engagement at Museums and Heritage Sites. In 2016, Smith was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
Marie-Louise-Félicité Angers, better known by her pen name Laure Conan, was a French Canadian writer and journalist. She is regarded as one of the first French-Canadian female novelists and the writer of the first French Canadian psychological novel.
Laurel Currie Oates is a legal author and law professor at Seattle University School of Law. Oates is also a visiting professor at the University of Witwatersrand School of Law in Johannesburg.
Laurel Mellin is an American author of nine books focusing on brain-based health, stress overload, and stress eating, including The New York Times Best Seller, The Pathway. She developed emotional brain training, a method of emotional regulation that rapidly reduces stress and promotes rewiring stress-induced problems.
Laurel Snyder is an American poet and writer of children's books, including novels and picture books. She has also edited a number of literary journals and is a commentator for NPR's All Things Considered.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian specializing in early America and the history of women, and a professor at Harvard University. Her approach to history has been described as a tribute to "the silent work of ordinary people"—an approach that, in her words, aims to "show the interconnection between public events and private experience." Ulrich has also been a MacArthur Genius Grant recipient. Her most famous book, “A Midwife’s Tale,” was later the basis for a PBS documentary film.
Laurelin Paige, is an American writer and romance novelist. She has written Novels about romance and most of her novels have hit New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today best selling list. Paige’s book Fixed Trilogy was listed in People Magazine as a Reader’s Choice 2014 Top Ten book of the year and was the only self published book in the ten top selling books on Amazon.
