Marc Lesser is a CEO, Zen teacher, and author who offers trainings and talks worldwide. He has led mindfulness and emotional intelligence programs at many of the world’s leading businesses and organizations, including Google, SAP, Genentech, and Twitter.

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Wendy Lesser is the founder and editor of the Threepenny Review and the author of ten previous books, including Why I Read, which garnered rave reviews from coast to coast. She has written for the New York Times Book Review, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and other publications.

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David A. Less has studied Memphis music for over forty years, and has conducted research for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Gibson Guitar Foundation. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, DownBeat, Blues Revue magazine, and the Bulletin for the Society of American Music.

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Nicole Lesperance grew up on Cape Cod and graduated from Wesleyan University. She spent a few years in London and now lives near Boston with her husband, two kids, and two rambunctious black cats. She writes young adult and middle grade books.

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Michaela M. Leslie-Rule is a researcher, cultural strategist, and storyteller. For over two decades, she has supported communities, nonprofit leaders, and philanthropic institutions to advance racial and gender justice by leveraging the power of stories.

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Diandra Leslie-Pelecky works at the intersection between science and story, leveraging her unique background as a nanomaterials researcher, a motorsports writer, and a master science communicator to create unique stories.

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Nikolai Leskov was born in 1831 in the village of Gorokhovo in Russia. He began his writing career as a journalist living in Kiev, and later settled in St. Petersburg, where he published many short stories and novellas, including The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, The Sealed Angel, The Enchanted Wanderer, and Lefty.

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Ron Leshem is deputy director in charge of programming at Channel Two, Israel's main commercial television network.

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Margaret Lesh is the cocreator of storyrhyme.com and an author of middle grade, young adult, and women's fiction. Her books include My Friends Are All Strange, Normalish, Finding a Man for Sylvia, and Mr. Katz Is a Zombie.

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Amazon bestselling author Vicki Lesage proves daily that raising French kids isn't as easy as the hype lets on. She penned the Paris Confessions series in between diaper changes and wine refills. You can visit her at VickiLesage.com.

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Dan LeRoy is an author, journalist, and teacher who has been the director of the Writing and Publishing Department since 2006. His writings about music and politics have appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, the Village Voice, Alternative Press, Esquire.com, and National Review Online.

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