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  • Alexis Landau
    Alexis Landau is a graduate of Vassar College and received an MFA from Emerson College and a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. She is the ...

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  • David Landau
    David Landau immigrated to Israel from the United Kingdom as a young man. His career in journalism began in 1970 at The Jerusalem Post, and he joined Haaretz in 1993 as news editor. He founded of ...

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  • William  Landay
    William Landay
    William Landay's latest novel is the New York Times bestseller Defending Jacob. His previous novels are Mission Flats, which won the Dagger Award as best debut crime novel of 2003, and The ...

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  • Tanya Landman
    Tanya Landman is the Carnegie Medal–winning author of a number of historical novels for young adults, including The Goldsmith's Daughter and I Am Apache, in which she explores the lives of ...

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  • Alex  Landragin
    Alex Landragin
    Alex Landragin is a French-Armenian-Australian writer. Currently based in Melbourne, Australia, he has also resided in Paris, Marseille, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Charlottesville. He has previously...

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  • Lorna  Landvik
    Lorna Landvik
    Writing and theater were Lorna Landvik's twin passions when she was growing up in her home town of Minneapolis, Minnesota. After graduating from high school, she and her best friend traveled in Europe...

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  • Derek  Landy
    Derek Landy
    Derek Landy lives near Dublin, Ireland. Before writing his children's story about a sharply dressed skeleton detective, he wrote the screenplays for a zombie movie and a slasher thriller in which ...

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  • Byron Lane
    Byron Lane is a playwright living in Los Angeles. Before becoming a writer, he was the personal assistant to Carrie Fisher for three years. A Star Is Bored is his first novel.

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