Author, Poet & Novelist Posters & Prints: "J - K - L", pg 6/11
for the literature, language arts and social studies classrooms, home schoolers, and scholars.

Henry James
b. 4-15-1843; NYC
d. 2-28-1916; London

• The Portable Henry James
• Henry James quote ecard - “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
• “Deep experience is never peaceful.”
• “Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.”

Juan Ramon Jimenez,
Spanish Poet
b. 12-24-1881; Spain
d. 5-29-1958

• 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature

• Juan Ramon Jimenez quotes -
• “If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”
• “Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.”

Dr. Samuel Johnson
b. 9-18-1709; England
d. 12-13-1784

Samuel Johnson, one of England's best known literary figures, was a noted essayist, poet, biographer, lexicographer and critic; he also was a teacher for a time. It is said he is the single most quoted English writer after Shakespeare. Samuel Johnson spent many years living in the home of diarist Hester Thrale and her husband; he also was long time friend with actor David Garrick, and formed "The Club" with friend and painter Joshua Reynolds that included Oliver Goldsmith and philosopher Edmund Burke. He was also acquainted with Hannah More.

Samuel Johnson suffered from a variety of maladies which included tuberculosis, gout, cancer, depression, and with what was later identified as Tourette syndrome.

Samuel Johnson Quotes:
• “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
• “A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.”
• “The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.”
• “To push advantages too far is neither generous nor just.”

• Samuel Johnson: The Major Works
• "Clear your mind of can't" quote poster

Ben Jonson
b. 6-11-1572; England
d. 8-6-1637

• Ben Jonson quotes -
• “Art hath an enemy called ignorance.”
• “If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.”
• “They that know no evil will suspect none.”

• Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques

James Joyce
b. 2-2-1882; Ireland
d. 1-13-1941; Zurich

• James Joyce quotes -
• “A man's errors are his portals of discovery.”
• “Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”
• “Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.”

• The Portable James Joyce
• James Joyce in Irish Writers Composite poster

Franz Kafka
b. 7-3-1883; Prague
d. 6-3-1924

• Franz Kafka quotes -
• “Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
• “By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
• “From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. ”

• The Complete Stories, Franz Kafka

Yasunari Kawabata
b. 6-14-1899; Japan
d. 4-16-1972

• 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature

John Keats, Poet
b. 10-31-1795; England
d. 2-23-1821

• John Keats poetry page
• Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats

Stephen King-
the Mystery Man

• more Maine posters

Rudyard Kipling
b. 12-30-1865; India
d. 1-18-1936

Rudyard Kipling, poet and novelist, was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author."

• Just So Stories book cover
• The Portable Kipling

Selma Lagerlof
b. 11-20-1858; Sweden
d. 3-16-1940

Selma Lagerlof was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909) “in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings.”

• The Wonderful Adventures of Niles Holgersson

Charles Lamb
b. 2-10-1775; London
d. 12-27-1834

Essayist Charles Lamb, who was friends with poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt wrote Essays of Elia, collaborated with his sister Mary Lamb (1764–1847) on the children's book Tales from Shakespeare.

Charles Lamb quotes -
• “Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.”
• “I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”
• “I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.”
• “Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.”
• “Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.”
• “The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.” (peace posters)
• “What is reading, but silent conversation?”
• “A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.”

• The Wonderful Adventures of Niles Holgersson

D. H. Lawrence,
b. 9-11-1885; England
d. 3-2-1930; Italy

D. H. Lawrence quote -
• “Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it – if he wants a safe seat in the audience – let him read someone else.”

• The Man Who Died book cover poster
• Lady Chatterley's Lover

T.E. Lawrence
b. 8-16-1888; North Wales
d. 5-19-1935; injuries from motorcycle accident.

British Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, is best known as "Lawrence of Arabia" for his participation and exploits in the 1916-1918 Arab Revolt.

• Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
• Saudi Arabia posters

Halldor Laxness
b. 4-23-1902; Iceland
d. 2-8-1998

• 1955 Nobel Prize for Literature

C.S. Lewis
b. 11-29-1898; Belfast
d. 11-22-1963

• The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics

Sinclair Lewis
b. 2-7-1885; Sauk Center, MN
d. 1-10-1951; Rome

• Lewis: Main Street and Babbitt

Walter Lippman
b. 9-23-1889; NYC
d. 12-14-1974

• The Good Society by Walter Lippmann

Jack London
b. 1-12-1876; San Francisco
d. 11-22-1916; Glen Ellen, CA

Jack London, author of Call of the Wild (1903), was "one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing".

• The Call of the Wild, History Through Literature poster

Lope Felix de Vega Carpio
b. 11-25-1562, Madrid
d. 8-27-1635, Madrid

• Three Major Plays of Lope de Vega

James Russell Lowell
b. 2-22-1819; Cambridge, MA
d. 8-12-1891; Cambridge

James Russell Lowell, a Romantic poet, a satirist, a diplomat (Spain, London), an abolitionist, and the first editor of The Atlantic Monthly, was also the godfather of Virginia Woolf.

James Russell Lowell was also one the 'Fireside Poets' group that also included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

James Russell Lowell quote -
• “Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”

• Odes, Lyrics, and Sonnets from the Poetic Works of James Russell Lowell

Lucian of Samosata
c. 125 - 180 AD

Lucian, who called himself an Assyrian (Syrian) and wrote in Greek, was a rhetorician whose satirical manner rideculed 'tyrants, prophets, waning gods, ahd hypocritical philosophers'. Today we might call him a pundit. Lucian is also considered the 'Father of Science Fiction' for his phantastic tales of space voyages, extraterrestial life, and planetary wars long before H. G. Wells and Jules Verne.

• Selected Satire of Lucian