LESLIE, DAVID STUART. The Man on the Beach. London, Hutchinson 1957, (m).
LEVAILLANT, MAURICE. The Passionate Exiles. (trans. Malcolm Barnes.) Farrar, Straus & Cudahy 1958. Historical “dual biography” of Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier.
+ LEVIN, MEYER. Compulsion. Simon & Schuster 1956. pbr Pocket Books 1958, (m).
LEWIS, SINCLAIR. Ann Vickers. Doubleday, 1933. One important lesbian episode in a novel of woman suffrage, viciously condemnatory.
LEVERIDGE, RALPH. Walk on the Water, Farrar, 1951, pbr tct The Last Combat, Signet 1952, Pyramid 1959, (m).
LEWIS, WYNDHAM. The Apes of God. N. Y. R. M. McBride & Co, 1932, London, Arthur Press 1950, London, Arco, 1955. Satire, including sharp studies of homosexuality, male and female.
LIN, HAZEL. The Moon Vow. Pageant Press, 1958. A Chinese woman psychiatrist, attempting to solve a patient’s problems, is led into seamy byways of Peking, including a somewhat gruesome lesbian cult.
LINDOPS, AUDREY ERSKINE. The Outer Ring. Appleton 1955, pbr Popular Library tct The Tormented, (m).
LINGSTROM, FREDA. Axel. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1939. Wealthy man adopts two boys and a girl. One boy, Valentine, has homosexual affair with an older boy, Teddy, who later commits suicide; the girl, Auriol, studying music in Germany, lives with 2 older women, one of whom is very innocently but very ardently in love with her. Well-written.
LIPSKY, ELEAZAR. The Scientists. Appleton-Century-Crofts 1959, pbr Pocket Books, 1960. Minor character in a long novel is a vaguely treated, but explicit lesbian.