The Royal Society of Literature has some 500 Fellows. They include most of the very best novelists, short-story writers, poets, playwrights, biographers, historians, travel writers, literary critics and scriptwriters at work today.

  • John Lanchester
  • Robin Lane Fox
  • Lee Langley
  • James Lasdun
  • Bryony Lavery
  • Zachary Leader
  • Hermione Lee CBE FBA
  • Molly Lefebure
  • Brendan Lehane
  • Mike Leigh OBE
  • Laurence Lerner
  • Andrea Levy
  • Paul Levy
  • Gwyneth Lewis
  • Jeremy Lewis
  • Naomi Lewis
  • R.P. Lister
  • Dame Penelope Lively DBE
  • Samuel Lock
  • David Lodge CBE
  • Michael Longley
  • Roger Lonsdale FBA
  • Edward Lucie-Smith
  • Andrew Lycett