Authors, Poets & Novelists Posters & Prints: "C", pg 2/11
for literature & language arts classrooms, homeschoolers, and scholars.

Truman Capote
b. 9-30-1924;Louisiana, raised in Monroeville, AL
d. 8-25-1984

• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• Capote DVD

Albert Camus
b. 11-7-1913; Algeria
d. 1-4-1960; France (car accident)

Albert Camus was a philosopher, novelist, and playwright, noted for his thinking on "the Absurb". He was a member of the French Resistence in WW II, and was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature.

• The Cambridge Companion to Camus

Thomas Carlyle, 1867
b. 12-4-1795; Scotland
d. 2-5-1881; London

Thomas Carlyle was a highly influential essayist, satirist, and historian during the Victorian era and on the thinking of the Transcendentalists. His crisis of faith was representative of the new social order being brought about by the Industrial Revolution and scientific inquiry. He was also a mathematics teacher.

• A Carlyle Reader
• Julia Cameron

Portrait of Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra, 1600
b. 9-29-1547; Spain
d. 4-23-1616; Madrid

Spanish novelist, poet and playwright Miguel de Cervantes wrote Don Quijote, a classic of Western literature and one of the best novels ever written.

• Don Quixote by Picasso poster

Alain Chartier, French Poet
and Political Writer
b. c. 1392 France
d. c. 1430

Chartier's 1422 Quadrilogue -invectif is allegorical prose using a fictional dialogue between the Three Estates ("Le Peuple," "Le Chevalier," and "Le Clerge") and the personfication of France as a woman, to expose the suffering and oppression of the lower classes.

John Keats wrote his ballad 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' using the title of Alain Chartier's 15th century work.

• Medieval Literature posters

Francois-Rene Vicomte de Chateaubriand
b. 9-4-1768; Saint-Malo, France
d. 7-4-1848; Paris

Chateaubriand, writer, politician and diplomat, is considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature, and influencing writers such as Hugo, Lord Byron, and Andre Malraux.

His visit to North America during the French Revolution resulted in descriptions of nature that were innovative for the time; he was also accomplished at describing emotions.

Late in his life he became a recluse only visiting his friend Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier.

Geoffrey Chaucer
b. c.1343; London
d. 10-25-1400

Geoffrey was a Medieval author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat best remembered for his unfinished narrative The Canterbury Tales.

Chaucer is sometimes called the father of English literature as the first author to use the vernacular English for an artistic work. Chaucer is also the first to associate the day commemorating two early martyrs of the Christian faith - Valentine - with courtly, romantic love.

• Geoffrey Chaucer in Great British Authors series

Anton Chekhov
b. 1-29-1850; Russia
d. 7-2-1904

Anton Chekhov is a Russian author

• The Portable Chekhov, Anton Chekhov

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
b. 5-29-1874; London
d. 6-14-1936

The Innocence of Father Brown, G.K. Chesterton's first mystery about the unassuming little priest who solves crimes by imagining himself inside the mind and soul of criminals.

Arthur C. Clarke
b. 12-16-1917; England
d. 3-19-2008; Sri Lanka

Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction writer and inventor, is best known for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was also made into a movie.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
b. 10-21-1772; England
d. 7-25-1834

English poet, critic, and philosopher, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, along with his friends, poets William Wordsworth and Robert Southey, were founders of the Romantic Movement in England and called the Lake Poets. Coleridge is best known for his Rime of the Ancient Mariner where an albatross is a major symbol-
He prayeth best, who loveth best / All things both great and small; / For the dear God who loveth us, / He made and loveth all,
and Kubla Khan -
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea.

• Coleridge's Poetry & Prose, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Colette
b. 1-28-1873; France
d. 8-3-1954

Colette is considered France's greatest woman writer. Her 1944 novel Gigi was made into a Broadway play (starring Audrey Hepburn) and an Academy award winning musical (1958).

• The Collected Stories of Colette

Henry Steele Commager
b. 10-25-1902; Pennsylvania
d. 3-3-1998

Henry Steele Commager was a noted educator, historian and author. He was a defender of civil liberties, opposed McCarthyism, and the Vietnam War.

• The Spirit of Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution as told by Participants, ed. Henry Steele Commager
• peace posters

Joseph Conrad
b. 12-3-1857; Poland
d. 8-3-1924

• The Portable Conrad, Joseph Conrad

James Gould Cozzens,
Pulitizer Prize winner.
b. 8-19-1903; Chicago, IL
d. 8-9-1978; Florida

• Just Representations: A James Gould Cozzens Reader