Nicholas Lemann is a staff writer at the New Yorker and dean emeritus of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, where he is the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism. He is the author of Transaction Man, The Big Test, and other books.

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Paul G. LeMahieu is the senior vice president for programs at Carnegie and the former superintendent of education for the state of Hawaii.

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Stanislaw Lem is the most widely translated and best known science fiction author writing outside of the English language. His books have been translated into forty-one languages and have sold over twenty-seven million copies.

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Thomas M. Lekan is a professor at the University of South Carolina with a joint appointment in the Department of History and the School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment. He is the author of Imagining the Nation in Nature and coeditor of Germany's Nature: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History.

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Chad LeJeune, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of San Francisco. He is a founding fellow of The Academy of Cognitive Therapy. He has been a practitioner of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) since its inception in the early 1990s.

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Professor Mary Joan Leith works at the Department of Religious Studies and Theology at Stonehill College and has published articles, columns, and blogs on the Virgin Mary. She takes an interdisciplinary approach that includes art history, archaeology, and gender studies as well as doctrinal history.

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Michael P. Leiter is an organizational psychologist and consultant. He has been professor of organizational psychology at Deakin University in Australia, and was Canada research chair in occupational health at Acadia University.

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Yan Leisheng has had an interest in science fiction since an early age, but it wasn't until his thirties that he was first published. Since then, he has published twenty books, including novels, short story collections, essays, and poetry. His most famous trilogy, Heaven Prevails, has sold over 500,000 copies in Chinese.

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Andrea Leininger and her husband own their own human resources consulting business, Accelerated Performance Resources, LLC, for which she serves as a professional resume writer.

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Bruce Leininger is president of Accelerated Performance Resources, LLC, a human resources consulting company he founded in 2002, and director of Human Resources for Rotorcraft Leasing Company.

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Frederick C. Leiner, a lawyer and historian, is the author of The End of Barbary Terror: America's 1815 War Against the Pirates of North Africa and Millions for Defense: The Subscription Warships of 1798.

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Michael D. Leinbach was the last launch director in the space shuttle program at NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center, responsible for overall shuttle launch countdown activities until the end of the program in 2011. In November 2004, Leinbach was awarded the prestigious 2004 Presidential Rank Award.

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