Lactantius --- lak-TAN-sh(ee-)uhs *

La Fontaine, Jean de --- lah fawⁿ-TEN, luh fahn-TAYN, luh FAHN-TAYN *

Lagerkvist, Par F. --- LAHG-uhrk-FIST *

Lagerlof, Selma --- LAH-guhr-LUH(R)V *

Lahr, Bert --- LAHR *

Laidlaw, William --- LAYD-LAW *

Lamartine, Alphonse de --- lah-mahr-TEEN, LAM-uhr-TEEN *

Lamb, Charles --- LAM *

L'Amour, Louis Dearborn --- luh-MUR (Louis is pronounced LOO-ee) *

Lampedusa, Giuseppe di --- LAHM-pay-DOO-sah, LAM-puh-DOO-suh, -zuh *

Lang, Andrew --- LANG *PDPN

Langland, William --- LANG-luhnd *

Lanier, Sidney --- luh-NIR *

Lardner, Ring Wilmer Jr. --- LAHRD-nuhr *

Larson, Glen --- LAHR-suhn *

Lawrence, D.H. --- LAWR-uhn(t)s, LAHR-uhn(t)s *

Laxness, Halldor K. --- LAHK-snuhs, LAHK-snes *

Layamon --- LIE-uh-muhn, LAY-uh-muhn *

Lear, Edward --- LIR *

Leary, Timothy --- LIR-e *

Le Carre, John (pseudomyn of D.J.M. Cornwall) --- luh KAR-AY, luh kahr-AY *

Le Fanu, Sheridan --- LEE-wuhrd, LOO-uhrd *

Le Gallienne, Richard --- luh GAL-yun, luh GAL-YEN *

Leger, Alexis St.-Leger --- lay-ZHAY *

Le Guin, Ursula --- luh GWIN *

L'Engle, Madeleine --- LENG-guhl *

Leopardi, Giacomo --- LAY-uh-PAHED-ee *

Lermontov, Mikhail --- LYER-muhn-tuhf *

Lesage, Alain-Rene --- lay-SAHZH *

Lessing, Gotthold --- LES-ing *

Levertov, Denise --- LEV-uhr-TAWF, -TAHF *

Levi, Carlo --- LAY-vee *

Lewis, C.S. --- LOO-uhs *

Lewis, Sinclair --- LOO-is *

Lindbergh, Anne --- LIN(D)-BUHRG *

Lin Yutang --- LIN YOO-YAHNG *

Li Tai Po --- LEE TIE BOH *

Livy --- LIV-ee *

Llull, Ramon --- LYOOL *

Locke, John --- LAHK *

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth --- LAWNG-FEL-oh, -FEL-uh *

Longus --- LAHNG-guhs, LAWNG-guhs *

Loos, Anita --- LOOS *

Lope de Vega Carpio --- LOH-pay tha (the d is soft sort of th, rather a "d" sound) VAY-gah KAHR-pee-o (the g is a soft sounding one)*

Lorca, Garcia --- LAWR-kuh *

Loti, Pierre --- loh-TEE *

Lowell, Amy or James Russell or Robert --- LOH-uhl *

Lucan --- LOO-kuhn *

Lydgate, John --- LID-GAYT, LIG-AYT *

Lyly, John --- LIL-ee *

*Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names, 2nd Edition Omnigraphics Detroit MI 1998