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Lee Fahnestock

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Leo Tolstoy

Russian novelist and moral thinker (1828-1910), author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. He wrote realist fiction about families, war and conscience, and later became a religious and pacifist writer.

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Leonard Peikoff

Canadian-American philosopher and Ayn Rand's legal heir. He writes nonfiction on Objectivism and the role of ideas in history, and wrote the afterword to editions of The Fountainhead. He co-founded the Ayn Rand Institute in 1985.

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Lindsey Fitzharris

Lindsey Fitzharris is a medical historian and author of vivid narrative nonfiction about surgery, scientific change and the human cost of medical progress.

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Louise Erdrich

Louise Erdrich is an American novelist, poet, and children’s author whose fiction centers Native communities, especially Ojibwe families, history, and survival.

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Lucasta Miller

British critic and biographer of nineteenth-century literature. She wrote The Brontë Myth, a study of the Brontës' afterlives, then lives of the poet Letitia Landon and of Keats. She also wrote the preface to the Penguin Classics Wuthering Heights.

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Maaza Mengiste

Ethiopian American novelist, essayist and photographer Maaza Mengiste writes historical fiction about war, political upheaval, memory and lives pushed out of official histories.

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Madeline Miller

Madeline Miller is an American novelist who recasts Greek myth through intimate, character-led stories. She is best known for The Song of Achilles and Circe.

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Maggie O’Farrell

Northern Irish-born novelist Maggie O’Farrell writes literary and historical fiction shaped by family bonds, memory, loss and the lives history leaves partly hidden.

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Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley

Malcolm X was a Black nationalist leader and human-rights activist whose life story, shaped in collaboration with journalist Alex Haley, became a landmark of American autobiography.

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Marc Levinson

Marc Levinson is an American historian, economist and journalist who writes accessible histories of trade, business and globalization.

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Marjane Satrapi

Iranian-born French cartoonist and filmmaker (1969–2026) best known for Persepolis, her autobiographical graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution and the war with Iraq.

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