Lǐ Zhào, active in the early ninth century, was a mid-Tang official-littérateur best known to later tradition as the author of two surviving works: the Hànlín zhì 翰林志 (KR2l0002), an institutional account of the Hànlín Academy completed in Yuánhé 14 (819), and the Tang guóshǐ bǔ 唐國史補 (Supplement to the Standard History of Tang), a three-juan collection of anecdotes covering the early to mid-Tang. According to the Xīn Tángshū “Treatise on Bibliography,” he served successively as Director of the Left Office of the Department of State Affairs (尚書左司郎中), then as Reminder-of-the-Left (左補闕) attached to the Hànlín Yuàn, then as Drafter in the Secretariat (中書舍人), before being demoted to Junior Director of Manufactures (將作少監) after recommending the disgraced general Bó Qí 柏耆. Wáng Dìngbǎo’s Tángzhī yán 唐摭言 places him in the Hànlín during the Yuánhé reign. CBDB lists several Tang figures named Lǐ Zhào; the one identifiable with this author (id 93106, fl. early ninth c., d. c. 836) is the conventional match. Birth and death dates are not securely fixed.