Authors Schools & Libraries
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Lisa Thompson
Lisa Thompson was born in Essex and as a child spent many hours in the local library reading and dreaming about becoming a writer one day. She worked in radio production at BBC Radio 2, and then as a freelancer, making plays and comedy shows for Radio 4. It was only after moving...
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Lissa Price
Lissa (pronounced LISS-sa) has written children's television for Jim Henson Productions and is an award-winning screenwriter. She lives in the foothills of Southern California, but has previously travelled the world; walking with elephants in Botswana, swimming with penguins in the Galapagos a...
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Lita Judge
Lita Judge is the author and illustrator of over 20 fiction and non-fiction picture books. Her books have received numerous awards including the Sterling North Award, the Jane Addams Honor, ALA Notable and Kirkus Best of. She enjoys teaching both writing and illustration to students of...
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Liz Pichon
Liz Pichon studied graphic design at Middlesex Polytechnic and Camberwell School of Art in London. She then worked in the music industry for Jive records as a designer and art director, organising photo sessions and designing record and CD covers. After deciding to go freelance, her wor...
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Lizzy Stewart
Illustrator and artist Lizzy Stewart graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2009, and received an MA in Communication Design from Central St Martins in 2013. She is also one half of independent publishers Sing Statistics and an associate lecturer at Goldsmiths College. Her fi...
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Lorraine Gregory
Raised by an Austrian mother and Indian father on a concrete council estate in East London, Lorraine spent most of her childhood escaping into the imaginary worlds of books by Dahl, Lindgren and Blyton, or creating her own sprawling, adventuresome stories. Her dreams of becoming a write...
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Louis Nowra
Louis Nowra is a critically acclaimed and multi-award-winning writer of plays, film and tv scripts, non-fiction, memoir and fiction. He was born in Melbourne and lives in Sydney with his wife, Mandy Sayer, also a writer, and their Chihuahua, Coco, and Miniature Pinscher, Basil.
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Louise Rennison
Louise Rennison lives in Brighton, a place that she likes to think of as the San Francisco of the South Coast. Which is sad as it is nothing like San Francisco, being mainly pebbles and large people in tiny swimming knickers who have gone bright red in the sun. Although she lives in Brighton i...
