Paul G. Labadie is a writer based in Detroit. For information about Alamo Village, call 210-563-2580.

Lawrence Lader, who has written widely on history, is currently at work on a study, as yet unfilled, of radical movements in the United States since 1946.

Gavin Lambert is a Hollywood screenwriter and author of Natalie Wood: A Life .

James Lamont, Jr., is a freelance writer now living in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield, Illinois.

Paul Lancaster’s article on the life and times of the American motel appeared in the June/July issue.

Philip Langdon, a senior editor of Progressive Architecture , is the author of A Better Place to Live: Reshaping the American Suburb .

Mr Laning, the well-known muralist, contributed to our pages “Memoirs of a WPA Painter” (October, 1970) and “Spoon River Revisited” (June, 1971).

Jack Larkin is Chief Historian at Old Sturbridge Village.

Charles J. LaRocca is a retired high school and college level history teacher who founded a student research and reenactment group based on the 124th New York. He has published articles and two books and lives in Montgomery, New York.

Harold A. Larrabee is Ichabod Spencer Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Union College, Schenectady.

Robert Larson, who lives in Hollywood, has had a varied career as artist, scene designer, journalist, motion-picture animator, and studio executive.

Cedric A. Larson was a Stanford graduate and veteran of the Navy.

—From Miss Sullivan’s letter written that next day

Clarence J. Laughlin, a writer-photographer who lives in New Orleans, has had his Louisiana plantation material exhibited in over sixty museums and university art galleries throughout the U.

Steven F. Lawson is an associate professor of history at the University of South Florida. He is the author of Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969 .

Formerly in the educational department of Houghton Mifflin, Mr. Le Roy is now Director of the Washington State Historical Society.

“History has always been a principal interest of mine,” says Mr.

Historian Linda Lear is the author or editor of Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature (Houghton Mifflin) and Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature (2007).

Tom LeCompte is a writer at Air and Space magazine who authored The Last Sure Thing: The Life and Times of Bobby Riggs in 2003.

Jane Mersky Leder is currently writing a book about love, sex, and World War II; you can reach her to share your own wartime experience at j.leder@comcast.net .

These definitions were drawn from A Glossary of Colonial American Words by Richard M. Lederer, Jr.

A Connecticut Yankee by birth, W. Storrs Lee is a free-lance writer who now “commutes” between homes in Maine and in Hawaii.

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Sandra Leff is director of research at the Graham Gallery in New York City.

—John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy in the Reagan administration, has just published On Seas of Glory , a history of the U.S. Navy.

A steady contributor to American Heritage, David Lehman has written both poetry and nonfiction books.

Nicholas Lemann has been the Dean and Henry R. Luce Professor at the Columbia School of Journalism since 2003. Lemann began his journalism career as a 17-year-old writer for an alternative weekly newspaper there, the Vieux Carre Courier.

MARK EDWARD LENDER is Professor Emeritus of History at Kean University in Union, New Jersey, and the coauthor of 

Edward G. Lengel is a historian in residence at Colonial Williamsburg, and previously served as Chief Historian of The White House Historical Association.

Novelist, essayist, and professor of English at McGill University in Montreal, Hugh MacLennan has five times won the Governor General’s Award, Canada’s counterpart to the Pulitzer prize.

Born in Toronto, Michael Lennick is a documentary filmmaker who has written and directed film and television series on space travel and technology for over 25 years.

John Leonard is the television critic for New York magazine.

Aldo Leopold was an American ecologist, forester, and environmentalist.

Edward E. Leslie is the author of Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls: True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors . His Quantrill biography is forthcoming from Random House.

William E. Leuchtenburg, a prominent 20th century historian, is the William Rand Kenan, Jr. professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Alexandra Lee Levin, granddaughter of Fanny Knight, lives in Baltimore. She is now at work on a study of English women playwrights of the eighteen century.

David Levine is a freelance writer whose work has been published in the New York Times, American Heritage, Sports Illustrated and many other publications.