Title: Lori L. Lake
Content:  Lori L. Lake (born February 9, 1960) is an American writer of fiction, mainly about lesbian protagonists. She is also an editor, instructor, publisher, and reviewer.
Title: Lee Lynch (author)
Content:  Lynch published her first piece of writing in The Ladder in the late 1960s. From there, she became a frequent contributor, as it was the only lesbian publication at the time. In 1983, Lynch published her first novel, Toothpick House, with Naiad Press. She went on to publish 10 more novels with Naiad, between the years 1984-1994. She has also published essays, and her stories have appeared in a number of anthologies. She has written reviews and feature articles for The Lambda Book Report and many other publications. Lynch's syndicated column, "The Amazon Trail", has been running in papers across the country since 1986. Beginning in 2006, Lynch published 11 more lesbian novels with Bold Strokes Books, a New York queer publishing house. Lynch cites Isabel Miller, Willa Cather, and Jane Rule as some of her writing inspirations. Many younger lesbian writers such as Lori L. Lake, Karin Kallmaker, and Rachel Spangler have cited her influence, especially regarding the importance of authenticity in lesbian literature. Her adept way of characterizing butch and femme characters in her writing set the standard for many novelists writing since the 1970s. Lynch has stated that her birth family has never read her work.
Title: Luanne Rice
Content:  Luanne Rice is an American novelist. Her 36 novels that have been translated into 26 languages. She often writes about nature and the sea, and many of her novels deal with love and family. She is the author of The Lemon Orchard, Little Night, The Silver Boat and Beach Girls.
Title: Laguna (publisher)
Content:  Laguna's first editions were titles by one of the most popular British authors, Terry Pratchett. Today, some of this publisher's foreign language titles include the names of classic authors (Shakespeare, Goethe, Gogol, Chekhov, Kafka, Proust, Musil) and numerous contemporary writers with works mostly from English, Spanish, German, French and Russian speaking territories such as: Nobel winners Mario Vargas Llosa, Herta Muller, José Saramago, Gunter Grass, Toni Morrison, Czeslaw Milosz, Mo Yan, Svetlana Alexievich, George Eliot, Max Frisch, Mark Aldanov, Sylvia Plath, Agatha Christie, Henry Miller, Hans Fallada, John Cheever, Bret Easton Ellis, Amin Maalouf, Ana María Matute, Tony Parsons, Roberto Bolaño, Margaret Atwood, Martin Walser, Bill Bryson, Khaled Hosseini, Victor Pelevin, Lucinda Riley and many others. Laguna has also published a great number of Serbian classics and works by contemporary authors and the 
Title: Laura Lam
Content: 1) The Snake Charm (June 2014) Penglass Publishing ; 2) The Fisherman's Net (July 2014) Penglass Publishing ; 3) The Tarot Reader (August 2014) Penglass Publishing ; 4) The Card Sharp (September 2014) Penglass Publishing ; 5) The Mechanical Minotaur (March 2017) Penglass Publishing 
Title: John Larkin (author)
Content:  John Brendan Larkin (born 20 April 1963) is an Australian writer. He is best known for The Shadow Girl and The Pause, both published by Penguin Random House. The Pause was released in April 2015 and won the Griffith University Young Adult Book Award at the 2015 Queensland Literary Awards. The Shadow Girl won the 2012 Victorian Premier's Award for young adult fiction.
Title: John Langan
Content:  John Langan (born July 6, 1969) is an American author and writer of contemporary horror. Langan has been a finalist for International Horror Guild Award. In 2008, he was a Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Collection, and in 2016, a Bram Stoker Award winner for his novel The Fisherman. He is on the board of directors for the Shirley Jackson Awards.
Title: Lori L. Lake
Content:  Her work includes The Gun Series police novels, The Public Eye Mystery Series, four standalone drama/romances, two short story collections, the Lambda Literary finalist anthology The Milk of Human Kindness, and the World War II novel Snow Moon Rising, which won the 2007 Ann Bannon Popular Choice Award, a Goldie from the Golden Crown Literary Society, and The Alice B Readers Award. In concert with fellow writer/editor Jessie Chandler, Lake also won a 2016 Golden Crown Literary Award for the anthology Lesbians on the Loose: Crime Writers on the Lam. In recent years, Lake has become a mentor and coach to many young and aspiring writers, especially through her work at The Loft Literary Center, the Portland Lesbian Writers Group, and the Oregon Writers Colony, and in her work as an organizer of writing retreats or as program director of literary conferences, particularly for the Golden Crown Literary Society from which she received the Directors' Award in 2012 for her co-founding the organization and coordinating conferences and events from 2004 to 2012. Lake also commenced publishing the work of others in 2017 upon opening Launch Point Press in Portland, Oregon.
Title: Seagull Books
Content:  Jorge Luis Borges, Antonin Artaud, Roland Barthes, René Char, Max Frisch, Frienrich Dürrenmatt, Thomas Bernhard, Christa Wolf, Ingeborg Bachmann, Urs Widmer, Jean Baudrillard, Guy Debord, Alexander Kluge, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Yves Bonnefoy, Philippe Jaccottet, Cees Nooteboom, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Maryse Condé, Mahasweta Devi, Pascal Quignard, Hélène Cixous, Giorgio Agamben, Antjie Krog, William Kentridge, Tomas Espedal, Wolfgang Hilbig, Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Ghassan Zaqtan, Alawiya Sobh, and Man Booker International Prize winner Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Contemporary English-language authors published by Seagull include Zakes Mda, Toby Litt, Tariq Ali, Dan Gunn and philosopher Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Seagull is committed to publishing young contemporary authors; emerging European authors brought to the international arena by Seagull’s translations include Dorothee Elmiger, Jan 
Title: J. L. Langley
Content:  J. L. Langley is the pen name of an American writer of over a dozen gay romance novels, some of which have been translated into Spanish, Japanese and German.

Question: Who is the author of The Lagoon?
Answer: Joseph Conrad.
Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski.