Louis George Alexander (15 January 1932 – 17 June 2002) (commonly referred to as L. G. Alexander) was a British teacher and the author of numerous EFL course books, including New Concept English.
[3] During much of World War II he was with his mother in Australia, later they returned to Britain, where was educated at Godalming Grammar School and the University of London.
Alexander consistently supported the cause of the relatively untrained non-native speaking teacher of English.
Louis Alexander died of leukemia on 17 June 2002 in Chambéry, Savoie, France.
[2] Tim Rix, former chairman of the Longman Group, praised Alexander as having "particular abilities and knowledge", combined with a "use of linguistics", which "meshed perfectly well with the requirements of ELT [English language teaching]" in his time.
In recognition of this, a statue was raised in his honour in the grounds of the "Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press..., one of China’s largest schoolbook publishers".