Leonard R. N. Ashley(born January 5, 1928, in Miami)[1][2][3] is an American writer on the English language.
[5] Aside from more traditional works on English drama, fiction, poetry, books on onomastics and geolinguistics, he is also known for his series of popular dictionaries of the occult.
[6] A recent installment in Dr. Ashley's series on the occult is the ultimate resource for information on the werewolf.
He contributed a Chronicle (c. 35 pages each, thrice annually) of book reviews to Bibliothèque d'Humanuisme et Renaissance (Geneva) from the 1960s to the end of 2018 and published hundreds of book reviews in Names, Geolinguistics, etc., and articles in Names, Word Ways, Comments on Etymology, Etc., Journal of Popular Culture, Onomasica, Hamlet Studies, Points of View, and other academic journals in the US and abroad.
Some of his books have been published in Dutch, Italian, German, and Norwegian translations as well as in US and UK editions.