Our authors have won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, National Book Critics Circle Award, Financial Times Book of the Year Award, and McKinsey Business Book of the Year, PEN/Hemingway, Pushcart Prize, Whiting Writer’s Award, Nobel Peace Prize, as well as the Tony, Grammy, Emmy, and Academy awards.
Deb Miller Landau is a freelance journalist whose investigative reporting has been anthologized in Harper Perennial's Best American Crime Writing. Her work on the 1987 murder of Lita McClinton has been cited by news stories and TV documentaries, including America's Most Wanted, Dateline, Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege & Justice, FBI: Criminal Pursuit and, most recently, Oxygen Network's 2022 Real Murders of Atlanta.
Katherine Sharp Landdeck is Associate Professor of History at Texas Women's University and the author of The Women with Silver Wings (Crown). Landdeck is a pilot and the nation's foremost expert on the Women Airforce Service Pilots, the first women ever to fly for the US Military.
Mark Landler is a White House correspondent for the New York Times, where he has previously served as the bureau chief in Hong Kong and Frankfurt, a European economic correspondent, a business reporter in New York, and a copy boy. He has appeared frequently on broadcast news shows, radio, and in documentaries, and is the author of Alter Egos: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and the Twilight Struggle over American Power.
Mary M. Lane (b. 1987) is a nonfiction writer and journalist specializing in Western art, Western European history, and anti-Semitism. Lane received one of five Fulbright Journalism Scholarships at 22 years old, gained international recognition as the chief European art reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and published numerous exclusive Page One articles on the art trove of Hildebrand Gurlitt. Since leaving the Journal, Lane has been a European art contributor for the New York Times. She splits her time between Berlin and Virginia.
Style Your Registry with Neil Lane
Style Your Reception with Neil Lane
Neil Lane’s life journey has always been focused on a deep appreciation of all things beautiful. Creating hand-crafted, treasured jewelry for some of Hollywood’s legendary stars, Neil has become one of the most celebrated jewelry designers in the world appearing, perhaps most notably, in every episode of ABC’s "The Bachelor."
Feed your Family for Under a Fiver: Over 80 Easy, Budget-Friendly Recipes (Thorsons/HarperCollins)
Feed your Family for Under a Fiver in 30 Minutes
Mitch Lane is the self-taught head chef of his home kitchen in Wolverhampton. Known as @mealsbymitch on TikTok and Instagram, and with three kids to please at dinner time, his mission is to bring budget-friendly homemade meals to families everywhere.
Carrie Lane is a professor of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton, and the author of A Company of One: Insecurity, Independence, and the New World of White-Collar Unemployment, which won the 2012 Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Prize and was a finalist for the 2012 Book Prize of the Society for Economic Anthropology.
Michael Lang, 1944-2022, co-created and produced the original 1969 Woodstock. His organization produced shows for hundreds of artists including the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan and managed various artists. He was a board member of the Woodstock Film Festival and the Felix Foundation for Adoptees.
Nikolaus Lang is a managing director and senior partner at BCG. He is the global leader of the firm’s Global Advantage practice, supporting clients on an array of globalization-related topics: global trade, localization, international joint ventures, and digital ecosystems.He is a cofounder and the director of BCG’s Center for Mobility Innovation, a team of urban mobility experts and digital business builders. As a global expert in connectivity, autonomous mobility, car-sharing, and fleet management, he and his team advise cities, public transportation operators, and mobility and automotive companies around the globe on innovative and state-of-the-art mobility solutions.He also manages BCG’s collaboration with the World Economic Forum (WEF), focusing on shaping the mobility of the future and, in particular, on how to advance the implementation of autonomous vehicles in urban settings.
Nico Lang is an award-winning editor and journalist. Their work has been featured in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, Washington Post, Vox, BuzzFeed, Jezebel, The Guardian, Out, The Advocate, and the L.A. Times.
An Academy Awards-winning actress for her roles in Tootsie and Blue Sky, Lange is also the recipient of two Emmys, 5 Golden Globes, and one Sag Award. She currently stars on the hit FX show American Horror Story.
The Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case
The Lost King: The Search for Richard III
With an enduring passion to tell stories that challenge our perception of established truths, Philippa Langley is a screenwriter and producer who inaugurated and led the successful archaeological search to locate King Richard III’s grave in Leicester. Her 90-minute documentary, The King in the Car Park, about the search for King Richard, made with Channel Four and Darlow Smithson Productions, was aired on 4th February 2013 and commanded an audience of six million. Based on her Looking For Richard Project, it became the channel's highest rated specialist factual show in its thirty-year history. It won the 2013 Royal Television Society Award for Best History Programme and was nominated for a 2014 BAFTA in the category of TV: Specialist Factual. Her screenplay on the life of King Richard, the most controversial monarch in British history, is based on contemporary source materials from the king's lifetime. She was made an MBE in 2015.
Co-authored with Michael Jones her The King’s Grave – The Search for Richard III was published in 2013 by John Murray in the UK and St Martin’s Press in the USA, released as major film-tie in The Lost King.
Her revelatory and acclaimed The Princes in the Tower - Solving History’s Greatest Cold Case was published in the UK and USA in November 2023.
Robert Lanza, MD is one of the most respected scientists in the world. Lanza is head of Astellas Global Regenerative Medicine, Chief Scientific Officer of the Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and adjunct professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He was recognized by TIME magazine in 2014 on its list of the "100 Most Influential People in the World." Lanza was part of the team that cloned the world's first human embryo, as well as the first to successfully generate stem cells from adults using somatic-cell nuclear transfer (therapeutic cloning). In 2001 he was also the first to clone an endangered species, and recently published the first-ever report of pluripotent stem cell use in humans. He is the author of three nonfiction books, most recently <i>The Grand Biocentric Design</i>.
Jennifer Lapidus is the founder and principal of Carolina Ground Flour Mill in Hendersonville, NC. She and Carolina Ground have been featured in the New York Times, WSJ, Splendid Table, Food & Wine, Saveur, Bon Appetit and more.
How to be Well
Amy Larocca is an award-winning American journalist. She spent 20 years working at New York Magazine as both Fashion Director and Editor at Large. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, Town & Country and the London Review of Books, among others. She lives with her family In New York and North London. How to Be Well will be published by AA Knopf in 2025.
Trials of Allegiance: Treason and the American Revolution (Oxford)
Treason! A Citizen’s Guide (Ecco)
Larson is professor of law at UC Davis.
Adam Lashinsky is a reporter on Silicon Valley and Wall Street for Fortune, co-chair of Fortune’s annual Brainstorm Tech conference, a contributor to the Fox News Channel, and author of the bestseller Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired—and Secretive—Company Really Works (Business Plus).
Francie Latour is a prize-winning writer whose work explores issues of race, culture, and identity. Her work has been featured on National Public Radio, the Today show, The Root, Essence, and the Boston Globe. Her writing was also anthologized in The Butterfly’s Way, edited by Edwidge Danticat. Francie is co-founder and co-director of Wee The People, a social justice project for kids. This is her first picture book.
A mother of three, Francie was born in the US to Haitian parents. Francie and her family live in Boston.
Regents professor of planetary science at the University of Arizona, Lauretta is also the principal investigator on NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Swarthmore, Laurison is the co-author of The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays to Be Privileged and Social Class in the 21st Century. He is also the Associate Editor of the London School of Economics’ British Journal of Sociology.
Visiting professor at both the University of California and Georgetown University, John Lawrence is the former longtime Chief of Staff of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, and Politico, among other publications.
Fast and Furious Oral History
Derek Lawrence is an entertainment journalist formerly of Entertainment Weekly, and a current contributor to Vanity Fair, GQ and Vulture
Leading with Love: Overcoming Injustice Through the Power of Nonviolence
Graham Lawton is a staff writer and columnist at New Scientist, where he has worked as Features Editor, Deputy Editor and Magazine Editor. He has a BSc in biochemistry and an MSc in science communication, both from Imperial College, London. He lives in London.
Jen Lazar is at work on a multi-generational family memoir about migration, postage stamps, and alchemy, in which she tracks her great-grandfather's journey from his escape from the Jewish ghetto in Iran to his fabulously successful trading-stamp empire, which was his family legacy. The memoir travels from revolutionary Tehran in the 1910s, to Paris at the rise of WWII, to the New York building boom and the occult in Europe in the 1960s. Along the way, postage stamps are traded in street markets, hidden under floor boards, printed in basements, and exchanged for the family's freedom in America.
Lazar is the winner of the Ploughshares 2023 Emerging Writer's Contest. She received her Masters of Education degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an MFA in Creative Writing from Hollins University. She lives in Burington Vermont.
Edging Towards Darkness: The Story of the Last Timeless Test
The Strangers Who Came Home: The First Australian Cricket Tour of England
Test of Time: Travels in Search of a Cricketing Legend
John Lazenby is a journalist and author who began his career on local newspapers in Sussex 35 years ago. He joined the Press Association in London in 1989, working as an editor on the news desk before transferring to sport. In his role as a rugby and cricket writer, he travelled the UK and Europe, filing copy for morning and evening newspapers throughout the country. Since 1997, he has worked as a freelance journalist on national newspapers, including the Times, the Sunday Times, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Telegraph and the Independent. In addition to his career as a print journalist, he has worked as a freelance sports broadcaster for radio and television.
His first book, Test of Time: Travels in Search of a Cricketing Legend was inspired by his grandfather, the Kent and England cricketer, J.R. Mason. John traced his footsteps on England’s 1897-98 tour of Australia, his interest sparked by the discovery of a cache of letters his grandfather had written home. Described by BBC Sport as ‘a great read’ and by the Sydney Morning Herald as a ‘delightful and unusual book’, Test of Time was well received in both the UK and Australia. It was selected as a finalist for the MCC/Cricket Society’s Book of the Year award in 2005, longlisted for the William Hill Prize and chosen as one of The Wisden Cricketer’s Books of the Year for 2005.
His The Strangers Who Came Home - The First Australian Cricket Tour of England was published by Bloomsbury in 2015. Bloomsbury published his Edging Towards Darkness on the last pre-Second World War England v South Africa Test match in 2017.
Biteback will publish his memoir, NHOJ – A Memoir That Started Backwards, in 2025.
John Lazenby lives in North Island, New Zealand.
Charles Leadbeater is the author of several internationally renowned books, among them Living on Thin Air, published in 1998, which explored the rise of the knowledge driven economy, and We-Think: Mass Innovation Not Mass Production, published in 2008, which examined how the web was enabling creative collaboration across a wide range of fields.
He has written extensively on innovation in education and advised governments across the world on new strategies for learning, from Canada to Australia.
His TED talk, ‘Learning from the Extremes’, looking at social innovation in education in the slums of the developing world, has been watched more than 1.5m times.
He was an advisor to Prime Minister Tony Blair and his governments, including writing the 1998 White Paper ‘Building the Knowledge Driven Economy’. Between 1997 and 2007 he worked as an advisor at several government departments including the DCMS and the Department of Education. Throughout that period he worked closely with David Miliband, the former foreign secretary, as a strategic advisor.
A past winner of the David Watt Prize for journalism, he had a ten year career at the Financial Times, where he was Labour Editor, Industrial Editor and Tokyo Bureau Chief before becoming Features Editor. He then became assistant editor at the Independent, where amongst other things he helped Helen Fielding devise Bridget Jones’s Diary.
He went to the Vyne comprehensive school in Basingstoke in Hampshire before winning a scholarship to read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford. After leaving Oxford, he went on to work on London Weekend Television’s current affairs programme Weekend World before joining the Financial Times.
Cory Leadbeater received his MFA in fiction from Columbia in 2014, where he was the recipient of the Jacob P. Waletzky Fellowship. Before that, he attended Trinity College, where he was the recipient of the Fred Pfeil Memorial Prize in Creative Writing, the John Curtis Underwood Memorial Prize in Poetry, andthe Ruel Compton Tuttle Prize in Scholarship. His memoir, KISSING THE 6 is forthcoming from Ecco. He lives in New Jersey with his family.
Samuel Leader holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Irvine, and a BA in Philosophy and Modern Languages from Oxford. He was a fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and writer-in-residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. He is working on a novel entitled The Trial of Monsieur Pascal.
The Permission Switch
Clifton Leaf is a Global Fellow at the Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine and an Adjunct Professor of Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Previously (until June 2021) he was the 19th Editor-in-Chief of FORTUNE, where he shepherded this venerable publication through its 90th anniversary and beyond. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Truth in Small Doses: Why We’re Losing the War on Cancer—and How to Win It, which was named by Newsweek as one of “The Best Books About Cancer,” and which earned Cliff a Lifetime Achievement Award in cancer reporting in addition to many other honors.
Lyla Lee is the author of the Mindy Kim series as well as the YA novel, I’ll Be The One (Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins).
Be Water My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
Guardian Of The Scroll Series, Books 1 and 2
As the steward of her father’s legacy, Shannon Lee serves as the CEO of the Bruce Lee Family Company and the chairperson of the Bruce Lee Foundation. Her mission is to provide access to her father’s philosophy and life through education and entertainment. She is the author of Be Water My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee (Flatiron Books). An in-demand speaker, she has spoken at TED, TEDx, Creative Mornings, among others. Shannon is the co-creator and host of the Bruce Lee Podcast, the executive producer of Cinemax’s Warrior series also based off of a treatment written by Bruce Lee, and is now working on GUARDIAN OF THE SCROLL, aYA duology, with award winning fantasy and science fiction author, Fonda Lee.
The Big We
Hali Lee co-founded the Donors of Color Network, was on the co-design team for Philanthropy Together, and is the founder of the Asian Women Giving Circle. Hali was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up in Kansas City. She graduated from Princeton University, studied Buddhism at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand, and received a master’s in social work from New York University. Currently, Hali builds out of Radiant Strategies and lives in Brooklyn, NY, along with her husband, young adult children, two old cats, a big love of a dog, and rooftop honeybees.
Eliza Park’s Recipe for Love and Success
Sophia Lee is a Korean American writer and is currently a medical student in Dallas, Texas. Sophia deeply cares about the intersection of storytelling and representation. ELIZA PARK’S RECIPE FOR LOVE AND SUCCESS is her debut YA novel.
Sam Lee plays a unique role in the British music scene. A highly inventive and original singer, folk song interpreter, a passionate conservationist, committed song collector and a successful creator of live events.
Alongside his organisation The Nest Collective and fellow collaborators Sam has shaken up the live music scene breaking the boundaries between folk and contemporary music and the assumed place and way folksong is heard.
He’s injected a renewed passion into this old material, helping to develop its ecosystem by not only inviting in a new listenership but also interrogating what the messages in these old songs hold for us today.
Derek Leebaert won the biennial 2020 Truman Book Award for Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945–1957; his previous books include Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy from Korea to Afghanistan and To Dare and to Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations, both Washington Post Best Books of the Year. He was a founding editor of the Harvard/MIT journal International Security and is a cofounder of the National Museum of the United States Army.
Frances Leech is a baker and writer, living in Paris. Her essay, ‘Kitchen Rhythm: A Year in a Parisian Pâtisserie’, was runner-up in the 2012 Financial Times/Bodley Head essay prize. She co-authored and illustrated the Paris food guide, A Pocket Feast, in 2014, which won the UK category for French Cuisine in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. She is the author of a regular food blog, ‘Tangerine Drawings’.
Gone to Earth
Seeking Mr Hare
Maurice Leitch is author of The Liberty Lad, Poor Lazarus, Silver's City and many other works. In 1969, he moved to London from his native Northern Ireland to become a producer in the BBC's radio drama department. In 1977 he became editor of A Book at Bedtime on Radio Four until leaving in 1989 to write full-time.
He was awarded the 1969 Guardian Fiction Prize for Liberty Lad. Silver's City won the Whitbread Prize in 1981. In addition, he has written over twenty television and radio plays and is a winner of the Golden Harp Award. In 1999 he was awarded an MBE for services to literature. Maurice Leitch died in 2023.
‘Perhaps the finest Irish novelist of his generation’ - Robert McLiam Wilson
The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading
Sam Leith was a King’s Scholar at Eton College and took a first in English Literature from Magdalen College, Oxford. He has worked in literary journalism for more than 25 years and has been literary editor of the Spectator since 2016, where he hosts their weekly ‘Book Club’ podcast. Before that he was literary editor of the Daily Telegraph, where he also served at different times as comment editor, senior feature writer, New York correspondent and Peterborough editor. He has been a judge of the Man Booker, Samuel Johnson, David Cohen, Costa, Wingate, Forward and Orwell Prizes (among others), and has chaired or interviewed any number of writers on stage, for broadcast and in print. He has also been a columnist for the Guardian, the FT, Prospect, the Evening Standard, Spears, the Daily Telegraph and Wall Street Journal Europe and lead book reviewer for the Daily Mail. His reviews have appeared regularly in the TLS, the Guardian, the Telegraph, the FT, the Sunday Times (London), the Spectator and UnHerd.
I was born and raised in Chania, to a Cretan fisherman dad and a Scottish mum. I spent most of my childhood in our family seafood restaurant by the sea. We ate the freshest fish everyday, caught by my dad; one man in one boat every single night.
I left Chania to study in England and after studying and travelling I came back to doing what I love most, cooking. Cooking at Moro and now Morito has been one of the best experiences of my life and I consider myself lucky to have a job that I love more and more every single day.
Christopher Leonard is a business reporter whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Bloomberg Businessweek. He is the critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Kochland, which won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, and The Meat Racket.
Contributor to Elle, The Hairpin, TechCrunch, and elsewhere, Leslie is a tech analyst whose work has also been commissioned by Google, Facebook, American Express, and others.
John & Paul: A Love Story In Songs
Ian Leslie is an author and speaker who lives in London, where he combines careers in writing and advertising. His book Born Liars was hailed as ‘consistently startling and fascinating’ by the Daily Mail and was BBC Radio 4’s ‘Book of the Week’. His book Curious was described by Tyler Cowen as ‘a beautiful and fascinating tribute to one of mankind’s most important virtues.’ He writes about ideas, culture and politics for a range of publications in the UK and US and is the author of a widely read and influential Substack newsletter called ‘The Ruffian’.
The Rt Hon. Sir Oliver Letwin took his first degree in History (for which he received a double first) at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he also completed his PhD in Philosophy. Following fellowships at Princeton and Cambridge, he has been a civil servant (where he served in Margaret Thatcher’s Policy Unit), an investment banker, a Member of Parliament, and a cabinet minister (where he served first as Minister for Government Policy and then as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster). He became a privy councillor in 2002 and was knighted in 2016.
After a career in law and academia, Levin spent the last twenty years working with governments and institutions, focused on economic development and political reform. Over the past ten years, he’s run the Liechtenstein Foundation for State Governance, through which he’s helped monarchies democratize their political foundations and state and non-state actors in armed conflict zones. His first book, Nothing But A Circus, was published in the UK, Germany, Russia, and Japan.
Dr. Morgan Elyse Levine, PhD, is a professor at Yale University in the School of Medicine, a core leader for Yale’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and a “rising star” in the field of aging and longevity science. Dr. Levine serves on the Scientific Advisor Boards of major companies, including Elysium, Life Epigenetics, and Humanity and her research has been featured in major news outlets, including: The Guardian, Time Magazine, the Washington Post, Good Housekeeping Magazine, and many others. She has also been profiled on CNN and is featured on the Netflix docuseries Goop Lab.
A former editor at both Wired and Billboard, Levine has also written for the New York Times, Fortune, Business 2.0, Conde Nast Portfolio, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair.
Adam Valen Levinson is a multimedia backpack journalist and travel writer whose work focuses on human stories in conflict areas. His work has appeared in numerous outlets, including VICE, the Paris Review, Al Jazeera, and Haaretz. He is currently an affiliate of the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. and a Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University
Ashley Nelson Levy received her MFA from Columbia University and has published fiction and essays in ZYZZYVA, Catapult, The Atlas Review, and Fourteen Hills. In 2015, she co-founded Transit Books, an independent publishing house with a focus on international literature, and her debut novel Immediate Family was published in 2021 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
The Rev. Jacqui J. Lewis, PhD is a public theologian, advocate and author at the intersections of racial/ethnic, gender/sexuality and economic justice. She was activated for this work when Dr. King was assassinated; she earned a MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary and a PhD from Drew University in preparation for this moment. NOW is the time for her to usher an urgent, global call to moral courage, our best humanity, and the fiercest love in order to heal souls and the world.
Lost: How Extinction Has Shaped Our Past and Our Future
Lewis is the Dibner Senior Curator for the History of Science and Technology, Huntington Library, and has written several books on birds around the world. He is completing a book currently titled Rooted: Twelve Trees That Shape Our Lives, and Our Future for Avid Reader.
How to Like Your Life
Emilie Leyes is a certified hypnotherapist (CHt) and brain training specialist trained in positive neuroplasticity, positive psychology, and clinical hypnosis. She has a master’s degree in mind-body medicine, through which she focused her research in hypnosis and imagery-based tools for mental wellbeing. After using brain training to fully recover from a debilitating, “incurable” chronic illness and transform her own mental health, Emilie made it her mission to help folks harness the power of their own minds to reduce stress, build confidence and creativity, increase their access to joy, and enjoy their lives as they boldly pursue their goals. Emilie has gained a large and dedicated following across her social media platforms, with 286,000 followers on Instagram and 934,000 on TikTok. She is the host of the popular brain training podcast, How to Like Your Life, and the founder/creator of the hypnosis app, Doddle Hypnosis & Meditation. Through workshops, courses, one-on-one coaching, and speaking engagements, Emilie has helped thousands of people transform their lives.
James Beard Rising Star Chef finalist and siblings behind Boston Mei Mei’s Street Kitchen, the acclaimed food truck enterprise and restaurant, focused on New England-influenced Chinese food and thoughtful sourcing.
Junheng Li is founder of the New York–based equity research firm JL Warren Capital LLC, former senior equity analyst at hedge fund Aurarian Capital Management, and author of Tiger Woman on Wall Street: Winning Business Strategies from Shanghai to New York and Back (McGraw-Hill).
Allan J. Lichtman is Distinguished Professor of History at American University and the author of many acclaimed books on U.S. political history, including White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, FDR and the Jews (with Richard Breitman), and the National Bestseller, The Case for Impeachment. He is regularly sought out by the media for his authoritative views on voting and elections.
Diane and Bernie Lierow live outside of Nashville, Tennessee. The story of their daughter, Dani, was the subject of a Pulitzer Prize-winning article in the St. Petersburg Times.
THE CHAIN: Why We (Still) Love Fleetwood Mac's Rumours
Alan Light has appeared as a music and culture expert on numerous television and radio programs, and was the director of programming for Live from the Artists Den, a concert series on PBS. As former editor-in-chief of Spin and Vibe magazines as well as the founder and editor of Tracks, Light has written for countless publications. A former senior writer at Rolling Stone, he won two ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards for his work. Light wrote What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography (Crown 2016); the oral history of The Beastie Boys, The Skills to Pay the Bills (Three Rivers 2005); and edited The Vibe History of Hip Hop (Crown 1999) and the New York Times bestseller Tupac Shakur (Crown 1997). He is a frequent contributor to The New York Times and Rolling Stone and hosts the SiriusXM music talk channel VOLUME. Light is based in New York City.
Pamela Lilly holds an MFA from Johns Hopkins University. Formerly a professor of English at Frederick Community College, she is now a full time writer.
Ananda Lima is a poet, fiction writer and translator, the author of Mother/land (Black Lawrence Press), winner of the Hudson Prize, and four chapbooks: Vigil, Tropicália, winner of the Newfound Prose Prize, Amblyopia, and Translation. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, The Common, Witness, and elsewhere. For her fiction, she was awarded the inaugural WIP Fellowship by Latinx-in-Publishing, sponsored by Macmillan Publishers, and an early version of CRAFT was named a finalist for the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing. She has an MA in Linguistics from UCLA and an MFA from Rutgers University, Newark. Originally from Brasilia, Brazil, she lives in Chicago. Her first collection of fiction, CRAFT, is forthcoming from Tor.
Patty Lin is a writer and producer known for Freaks and Geeks, Friends, Desperate Housewives, and Breaking Bad. She has also written pilots for Fox, CBS, and Nickelodeon. Her Breaking Bad episode, “Gray Matter,” was nominated for a Writers Guild Award. She retired from TV writing in 2009 to pursue other interests and occasionally appears in background acting roles.
Travel on the Dance Floor: One Man's Journey to the Heart of Salsa
A Literary Guide to the Lake District
I was born in Liverpool and educated at Oxford, where I read English. In 1977 I published my first full-length collection of poems, Fools’ Paradise. That book has been followed by five other books of poems: Tourists (1987), A Prismatic Toy (1991), Selected Poems (2000); then – published by Wave Books in Australia – the first four sections of my long poem-in-progress on the life of the Buddha, Touching the Earth, and another collection of poems, Playing With Fire, from Carcanet Press in 2006. My new collection, Luna Park, was published by Carcanet in 2015.
In the late 1970s I became interested in Thomas De Quincey, ‘the English Opium-Eater’, essayist and friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge. I wrote a biography of him, published in 1981 as The Opium-Eater: A Life of Thomas De Quincey. Later I edited his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings for the Oxford World’s Classics series in 1985, and later still I piloted The Works of Thomas De Quincey, a 21-volume complete edition of his writings, produced by a team of eleven editors under my direction and published in 2000-03.
Alongside this work I published in 1993 A Literary Guide to the Lake District, a systematic guide to the area’s literary connections from the earliest times to the present day. It won the ‘Lakeland Book of the Year’ award in 1994. It has been repeatedly updated, and a new edition was published by Sigma Press in 2015.
My travel book, Travels on the Dance Floor was chosen as a Radio 4 Book of the Week and shortlisted as Authors’ Club Best Travel Book.
Mysterious Wisdom: The Spiritual Life and Poetry of W.B. Yeats will be published by Oxford University Press in 2026.
Our Perfect Marriage (Quirk, 2016)
Alan is a former staff writer for SNL. Claire is an improv and writing teacher at The Second City.
Josh Linkner is the founder and president of ePrize.com, a successful four-time entrepreneur and CEO, the founding partner of Detroit Venture Partners, a jazz musician, and weekly contributor to Inc. Magazine, Forbes, and the Detroit Free Press. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Disciplined Dreaming and The Road to Reinvention (Jossey-Bass). He has twice been named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and is a President Obama Champion of Change Award recipient.
How I Cook: A Chef’s Guide to Really Good Home Cooking
Ben Lippett is a chef, food writer and recipe developer, and the powerhouse behind the hugely popular @dinnerbyben social media accounts (where he has accrued over 400,000 followers) and the How I Cook Substack, which currently ranks 20th on the global food and drink leaderboard. He’s a firm believer that one of the most important things you can do whilst cooking is ask why? Why am I adding salt now and not later? Why am I patting this chicken breast dry before I cook it? Why has my chocolate mousse split? How do certain flavours develop? Understanding the whys and hows behind your cooking is akin to holding the keys to the culinary kingdom and will ultimately make life in the kitchen a fulfilling and enjoyable one.
Barbara K. Lipska, a neuroscientist, is the director of the Human Brain Collection Core at the National Institute of Mental Health.
Emily Listfield is the author of seven novels, including a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her books have been published in numerous foreign countries. She is the former Editor-in-Chief of Fitness Magazine and Executive Editor of Parade's HealthyStyle. Her writing appears frequently in Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Allure, The New York Times, and many other national publications. She has served as a panelist at SXSW, worked across media platforms and is the co-founder of Jyst, a crowd-sourced relationship advice app for women. She lives in New York City, where she raised a pretty great daughter.
John Lithgow is a Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe award-winner, a bestselling author, a talented humorist, and a renowned performer. He is best known for his time on the mega-hit NBC comedy 3rd Rock From the Sun, his performances in The Crown and Dexter and his starring roles in The World According to Garp, Terms of Endearment, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Pelican Brief, This is 40, Interstellar, Pet Sematary, Bombshell, and Late Night, among many others.
Bruce Littlefield, national television personality and author of numerous lifestyle books, including Merry Christmas, America and Airstream Living, has most recently written The Bedtime Book for Dogs, an illustrated read-aloud book for the canine community (Grand Central). He is the co-author of Bravo TV star Fredrik Eklund’s The Sell (Avery).
Natalia Litvinova (Gómel, Bielorrusia, 1986) is an Argentinean writer and editor, specialized in poetry and translation. She was born five months after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. In the 90s, when she was about to turn ten, her family decided to emigrate to Buenos Aires. She has published several poetry collections, Todo ajeno (Vaso Roto, 2013), Siguiente vitalidad (La Bella Varsovia, 2016), and Soñka, manos de oro (La Bella Varsovia, 2022). Her poetry has been published in Germany, France, Spain, Chile, Brazil, Colombia and the United States. She’s currently working on her debut novel.
My Nameis Venus Black is Heather K. Lloyd’s debut novel. She spent many years working as a freelance editor and book doctor. After raising her children on the West Coast, she and her husband recently moved to New York City where she is at work on her second novel.
John Lloyd was the Founding Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, where he is now Senior Research Fellow. He is contributing editor to the Financial Times, chairman of the advisory board of the Moscow School of Political Studies and a columnist for Reuters.com and La Repubblica of Rome. He has won awards for journalism, including 'Specialist Writer of the Year' in the British Press Awards and 'Journalist of the Year' in the Granada What the Papers Say Awards.
Jason Lloyd is a lifelong resident of Northeast Ohio. He has covered the World Series, the NCAA Tournament, the BCS National Championship Game and the NBA Finals, and he has won several state and national awards for his work covering the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Cleveland Cavaliers. He has also worked for ESPN.com, Lindy’s Sports Annuals, Cleveland Magazine, and CBSSports.com.
Will Lloyd is a columnist at The Times (London) and a reporter at the Sunday Times (London), having formerly worked as a Commissioning Editor and Writer at the New Statesman and Staff Writer/ Commissioning Editor at UnHerd.
Top Chef Masters finalist and award-winning chef, Lo worked at Bouley and Chanterelle before opening the Michelin-starred restaurant annisa in the heart of Manhattan’s Greenwich Village in 2000, which she ran until it closed in 2017. Food & Wine named her one of ten Best New Chefs in America, and the Village Voice proclaimed her Best New Restaurant Chef; in 2015, she became the first female guest chef to cook at the White House.
Tom LoBianco is a White House reporter for The Associated Press. He has covered Mike Pence from his first campaign rally for governor in Pence’s native Columbus, Indiana to his return to Washington to take the oval office. LoBianco worked the halls of the Indiana Statehouse and Congress for a combined seven years with the AP, the Indianapolis Star and CNN. He is a regular political analyst on national television and radio, including CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, NPR and more.
Bruna Dantas Lobato is a novelist and translator. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Guernica, A Public Space, The Common, and other publications, and it has been recognized with fellowships and residencies from Yaddo, Jentel, A Public Space, NYU, and Disquiet International. Her literary translations include Caio Fernando Abreu's seminal story collections Moldy Strawberries (longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize) and No Dragons in Paradise, among others. Other translations from Portuguese have appeared in Bookforum, Vogue, BOMB, The Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, The Brooklyn Rail, and The American Scholar. She serves on the Board of the Directors of the American Literary Translators Association, and holds an MFA in Fiction from New York University, and an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa and, like the protagonist of her forthcoming novel, TWO LIVES (Grove, 2024), she attended undergrad in Vermont. Originally from Brazil, she lives in St. Louis with her partner and pet bunny.
Dr Matt Lodder is a Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory, and Director of American Studies at the University of Essex. He teaches European, American and Japanese art, architecture, visual culture and theory from the late 19th century to the present, specialising in the art history of tattoos. He has given invited lectures at venues including the V&A, the National Museum of Scotland, and the Museum of London, and has published academic papers in venues including the Sculpture Journal, and contributed forewords for over a dozen popular books on tattooing. He has contributed articles to the Royal Academy Magazine, History Today, The Guardian and others, and appeared on broadcast media across the globe. His first monograph, on the history of Western tattooing, is currently in production. His latest major exhibition, 'British Tattoo Art Revealed', began at the National Maritime Museum Falmouth in March 2017 and is currently on tour nationwide through 2021. Matt also serves as the presenter of the landmark television series "Art of Museums" / 'Magie des Grands Musées' / 'Magie der Museen', airing across Europe and beyond in late 2018 and early 2019.
Kurt Loder is a longtime film critic, music journalist and television presence and the author of I, Tina, with Tina Turner, and a collection of his work from Rolling Stone where he was an editor for nine years. He was an anchor and correspondent for MTV News, as well as the writer and host of MTV’s The Week in Rock for more than a decade. He currently writes about movies for Reason Online and has also guest-starred as himself in numerous films. His writing has appeared in Esquire, Details, New York Magazine, and Time. He currently lives in New York City.
Mike Lofgren is a former senior analyst on the House and Senate Budget committees and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Party Is Over and The Deep State (Viking).
The Meaning of Memory
Elizabeth Loftus, who holds the title of Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine, is one of the most respected memory researchers of the 20th and 21st centuries. At UC Irvine, she holds positions in two departments: Psychological Science and also Criminology, Law, and Society. She received her PhD in Psychology from Stanford University.
Frisson
Dr. Tim Lomas is one of Europe's leading experts on positive psychology and the program leader at the University of East London's MSc in Applied Positive Psychology (one of the most highly respected post-graduate courses in Europe). He has written for the Guardian and has published numerous academic papers in high-profile journals, including Psychology, Public Policy and Law, Mindfulness, Psychology and Health and the Journal of Happiness Studies.
Ernesto Londoño is a journalist for The New York Times. He joined the newspaper in 2014 as a member of the editorial board and served as Brazil bureau chief from 2017 to 2022. He previously worked at The Washington Post, where his assignments included covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and the Pentagon. He was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia.
John Long is the Strategic Professor of Paleontology at Flinders University in Adelaide and part of the largest paleontological research team in Australia. He has held several research positions at major museums including several years as Vice President of Research and Collections at the Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County in California. Over the course of his career, he has discovered and described more than 85 extinct creatures in remote locations ranging from Antarctica, China, Iran, Thailand, and his native Australia, published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles as well as numerous pieces in Scientific American and Nature, and writes regularly for The Conversation, where his piece about Megalodon has been read by close to a million people.
Eva Longoria is an American actress, producer, director, activist and businesswoman, best known for her role on the popular television series Desperate Housewives. Besides acting Longoria has ventured into business and has released various books, including Eva’s Kitchen, taking readers on her culinary journey—from the food she was brought up on to the recipes inspired by her travels abroad to the dishes she serves during casual nights at home.
Azul López (FKA Andrés López) is a Mexican author and illustrator of picture books. Her books have been published in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Italy, France, Spain, South Korea, The Netherlands, USA, Germany, Greece and Sweden. Her stories and drawings have received multiple international awards. Most recently, she received the International Award for Illustration from the Bologna Children's Book Fair and the Green Island award from the Nami Island International Picture Book Illustration Concours in South-Korea.
Azul uses emotions, memories, and metaphors to tell the stories she imagines. She is happy to collaborate on stories that others imagine, too. When she’s not working at her studio, she likes to walk among flowers, and to spend a lot of time looking at the sky, enjoying how, by just paying attention, we can witness the beautiful wonder of seeing things change.
Holding Lightning: The Life, Loves, and Art of Whitney Houston
Emily Lordi is a professor of English at Vanderbilt University and a writer-at-large for the New York Times’s T Magazine. She has published three acclaimed books on Black artistry, with Rutgers University Press, Bloomsbury’s 33⅓ series, and Duke University Press, and her writing as appeared in the Atlantic, the New Yorker, and elsewhere.
Isabel Losada, described as ‘The UK’s Sassiest Spiritual Author’ by the Bookseller, is the author of 6 books. Her work combines humour with a serious subject matter. She has worked as an actress, broadcaster, public speaker and comedian.
Jessica Lott, a graduate of the MFA Program in Fiction Writing at Boston University, is the author of the novel The Rest of Us (Simon & Schuster).
Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Member Mike Love is a founding member and lead singer of the legendary rock group The Beach Boys. In addition to a Grammy Award, he has received an Ella Award from the Society of Singers and has co-authored more than a dozen Top 10 Singles. He is the author of Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy (Blue Rider Press), co-authored with James Hirsch.
Widely considered the Godfather of Biodiversity, Thomas Lovejoy is a pioneering biologist who coined the term “biodiversity” and is credited with founding the field of climate change biology. He is a Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation and the world’s leading authority on conservation ecology.
Valentine Low is a writer and journalist who was for many years Royal Correspondent for The Times (London). He covered his first royal tour in 1994, when he accompanied the Queen on her historic state visit to Russia. He has written about the royal family since 2008, and during that time has produced a number of exclusives, including the inside story of the ousting of the Queen’s private secretary. In March 2021 he wrote an exclusive about bullying allegations against the Duchess of Sussex which made headlines around the world.
Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown was a Sunday Times bestseller.
James Lowell is the editor of Fidelity Investor, a mutual fund advisory newsletter published by Phillips, and has spent the last decade covering mutual funds for all media. A feature columnist for the Dow Jones Investment Advisor Magazine, he is the author of Investing from Scratch and How to Survive in the Real World. He lives in Massachusetts.
The Long War: The Inside Story of America and Afghanistan Since 9/11
David Loyn has been a foreign correspondent for 30 years, mostly with the BBC. Among other prizes he is one of only two journalists to have won both of Britain’s leading awards in television and radio news – Sony Radio Reporter of the Year and Royal Television Society Journalist of the Year.
His first book, Frontline, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2006. His reporting highlights include the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in East Germany, Hungary and Romania. After reporting on India since the assassination of Indira Gandhi and riots in India in 1984, he later returned to succeed Mark Tully as the BBC Correspondent in Delhi. He has spent long periods travelling with guerrilla forces including separatists in Kashmir and Sri Lanka, Maoists in India and Nepal, and the Taliban in Afghanistan since their origins in the mid-90s.
He was the only foreign correspondent with the Taliban when they took Kabul in 1996 and returned to spend time behind enemy lines reporting with the Taliban in Helmand in October 2006. He had several assignments in Iraq, including a two-month embed with US Marines during the invasion in 2003, and had several embeds with British forces, including the deployment of the Black Watch to Camp Dogwood in October 2004.
David Loyn’s acclaimed The Long War – The Inside Story of America and Afghanistan Since 9/11 was published by St Martin's Press in the US and UK in 2021.
Elliott & Thompson will publish his Mapmakers – How Britain Drew the Borders of the Modern World in 2025.
Violet Lumani was raised in a family of superstitious omen-watchers, absorbing the stories and myths her family brought to America with them. She holds a BA from Barnard College of Columbia University, and an MBA from UCONN and lives in Connecticut with her husband, two kids, and forever-dieting chihuahua named Kiwi. Foretold, part of the Scryer series, is her YA debut.
Lust: Porn, Pleasure, Power
Erika Lust is an award-winning indie erotic filmmaker. Her sex-positive adult cinema features relatable characters with an everyday look and realistic sex, transgressing gender stereotypes and fetishisations to offer a groundbreaking alternative to mass-produced mainstream porn. Erika Lust has reshaped the landscape of adult filmmaking, challenging societal norms and paving the way for a new era of empowered sexuality. With her unique storytelling approach, she has captured hearts and minds, showcasing eroticism in a way that is authentic, inclusive, and respectful. Erika Lust has been a beacon of change throughout her journey, championing body positivity, consent, and diverse representations of pleasure.
Conan Doyle’s Wide World
Andrew Lycett is a biographer, author and broadcaster. He also writes and reviews for a large number of newspapers and magazines. Lycett lectures and speaks at schools, universities and literary festivals. He recently finished a stint on the Management Committee of the Society of Authors. He is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).
The Immune Mind: The New Science of Health
The Painful Truth: The New Science of Why We Hurt and How We Can Heal
The Remarkable Life of the Skin: An Intimate Journey Across Our Largest Organ
Monty Lyman is a medical doctor, author and research fellow at the University of Oxford. His clinical, research and writing interests focus on the relationship between mind and body.
He won the 2017 Wilfred Thesiger Travel Writing Award for his report on a dermatological research trip to Tanzania.
Following global research, his first book, The Remarkable Life of the Skin was published by Bantam Press in the UK and by Grove Atlantic in North America in 2019. Shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize, it was a BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' and a Sunday Times 'Book of the Year'. The Remarkable Life of the Skin has been translated into nine languages.
His acclaimed The Painful Truth, on the new science of why we hurt (and how we can heal), was published by Bantam Press in 2021 and was a Top 10 Amazon bestseller. It has been translated into five languages. His essay based on research for The Painful Truth won the 2020 Royal Society of Medicine essay prize.
The Immune Mind, Dr Lyman’s third book on the relationship between the immune system and our mental health was published in 2024.