Lady Augusta Gregory
LADY AUGUSTA GREGORY was a dramatist, folklorist, and theatre manager. She co-founded the Abbey Theatre in 1904, where one of her own plays was performed on opening night. She remained an active...
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU was a writer and an aristocrat. From a young age, she had strong literary ambitions, writing in her diary, “I am going to write a history so uncommon." She had to...
Leilah Assunção
LEILAH ASSUNÇÃO, (born Maria de Lourdes Torres de Assunção), is a Brazilian dramatist, actress, playwright and screenwriter. In her first three plays, Fala Baixo Senão Eu Grito (Speak Quietly or...
Lenore Coffee
LENORE COFFEE was an American screenwriter, playwright, and novelist. Born in San Francisco, she began her career answering an ad requesting a screen story for the actress Clara Kimball Young and...
Lesley Storm
MABEL COWIE (who wrote under the name Lesley Storm) was a Scottish screenwriter, playwright, and novelist. She wrote comedies, thrillers, and family dramas. Several addressed social taboos....
Lesya Ukrainka
LESYA UKRAINKA was the foremost woman writer in Ukrainian literature and a leading figure in its modernist movement. A poet, dramatist, short-story writer, essayist, and critic, she wrote her...
Leueen MacGrath
LEUEEN MACGRATH was an English playwright and actress for both the stage and screen. She was born in London in 1914 and graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Her acting career began in...
Li Man-Kuei
LI MAN KUEI (李曼瑰) was a dramatist, teacher, and political figure. Originally a teacher, she worked and studied in the United States, and had posts at the Library of Congress and Columbia...