Authors, Poets & Novelists Posters & Prints, "S", pg 9
for literature, language arts and social studies classrooms, and home schoolers.

Nelly Leonie Sachs,
b. 12-10-1891; Germany
d. 5-12-1970

Nelly Leonie Sachs was a German poet and dramatist who was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature for her "poignant expression of the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews". Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels (1950) is her best-known play.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
b. 6-29-1900; France
d. 7-31-1944, plane crash

Saint-Exupery was one of the pioneers of international postal flight and many of his stories drew on his flight experiences. One of Saint-Exupery's most famous works is Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) an illustrated tale in which a stranded pilot meets The Little Prince, a young boy from a tiny asteroid.

• The Little Prince poster
• aviation posters
• Saint-Exupery quote poster

J.D. Salinger
b. 1-1-1919; NYC

J. D. Salinger is an American author best known for his classic novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951) and his reclusive nature.

• Catcher in the Rye poster

Ignatius Sancho
b. 1729; slave ship
d. 12-14-1780; London

Ignatius Sancho's 'Letters' are one of the earliest accounts of African slavery in English that was written by a former slave. He is the first known Afro-Briton to vote in a British election.

George Santayana
b. 12-16-1863; Spain
d. 9-26-1952; Italy

George Santayana was a poet, novelist, essayist and philosopher known for his remark, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," from Reason in Common Sense.

George Sand (Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant)
b. 7-1-1804; France
d. 6-8-1876

George Sand was the pseudonym of the French novelist and feminist Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant. She began wearing men's clothing because they wore longer and were less expensive than an aristocrat's dress, and enabled her to gain access to places in Paris that might have been denied to a woman of her social standing. She was a companion to Frederic Chopin, friends with Franz Liszt, Gustave Flaubert, and actress Marie Dorval.

• Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand

Carl Sandburg
b. 1-6-1878; Galesburg, IL
d. 7-22-1967; Flat Rock, NC

Carl Sandburg was an American poet, historian, novelist, journalist, balladeer, biographer, and folklorist. Sandburg was awarded two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln: The War Years) and one for his collection The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg. He described Chicago as"Hog Butcher for the World/Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat/Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler,/Stormy, Husky, Brawling, City of the Big Shoulders."

• Carl Sandburg in Images of Labor posters

Sir Walter Scott
b. 8-15-1771; Scotland
d. 9-21-1832

Historical novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott, popular throughout Europe, Australia, and North America during his era, wrote works that are considered classics today: Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, The Lady of the Lake, Waverley and The Heart of Midlothian. His novel The Bride of Lammermoor was the inspiration of Donizetti's opera 'Lucia di Lammermoor'.

William Shakespeare

• more Shakespeare posters
• Great Britain posters

George Bernard Shaw
b. 7-26-1856; Ireland
d. 11-2-1950; England

• The Cambridge Companion to Geroge Bernard Shaw
• 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature
• Shaw quote poster
• George Bernard Shaw in Irish Writers Composite poster

Percy Bysshe Shelley
b. 8-8-1792; England
d. 7-8-1822; Italy

• The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mary Wollestoncraft Godwin Shelley
b. 8-30-1797; London
d. 2-1-1851; England

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, was an English romantic/gothic novelist and the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. She was married to poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

• Frankenstein Movie Poster

Henryk Adam Aleksandr Sienkiewicz, Pseudonym: Litwos, Polish Novelist
b. 5-5-1846; Poland
d. 11-15-1916; Switzerland

• 1905 Nobel Prize for Literature

Frans Eemil Sillanpaa,
Finnish Writer
b. 9-16-1888; Finland
d. 6-3-1964

• 1939 Nobel Prize for Literature

Upton Sinclair
b. 9-20-1878, Maryland
d. 11-25-1968

American author Upton Sinclair achieved much popularity in the first half of the 20th century for his investigations of social conditions, and notariety for his advocacy of socialist views and anarchist causes, such as his arrest for reading the First Amendment (free speech) at a labor rally in 1923. He gained particular fame for his novel, 'The Jungle', which dealt with conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry and caused a public uproar that contributed to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act in 1906.

• Sinclair in Writers Who Changed the World posters

Alexander Solzhenitsyn
b. 12-11-1918; Russia
d. 8-3-2008; Moscow

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, author and historian, made the world aware of the Soviet Gulag labor camp system with his "The Gulag Archipelago", a multi part narrative based on personal experience, eyewitness testimony and primary research material. Solzhenitsyn was exiled from the Soviet Union for nearly twenty years, returning in 1994.

• 1970 Nobel Prize for Literature, awarded in 1974

Sophocles
b. c.496 BC; Greece
d. 406 BC

Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripdes were the three great ancient Greek tragedians. Greek drama began with a chorus telling a story, gradually preceding playwrights added one, then two characters, to express the story. Sophocles is credited with adding the third character which diminished the importance of the chorus and allowed the development of personality and conflict.

• The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

Robert Southey
b. 8-12-1774; Bristol
d. 3-1-1843

Romantic poet Robert Southey was one of the "Lake Poets" with Wordsworth and Coleridge, and Poet Laureate of England. Southey wrote "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", a notable bedtime story that by having been told so often, has lost its author.

• The Lakeland Poets: In the Footsteps of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey and Others

Edmund Spenser
b. c. 1552; England
d. 1-13-1599; London

Edmund Spenser, an English Poet Laureate, is best known for his epic poem, The Faerie Queene, celebrating Elizabeth I, and his desire to obliterate Irish culture

• more Edmund Spenser's Poetry

Gertrude Stein
b. 2-3-1874; Pennsylvania
d. 7-27-1946; France

Gertrude Stein was an American expatriate (a person residing in a country and culture other than that of the person's upbringing or legal residence) writer who is considered to have been a primary mover in the development of modern art and literature in the early 20th century." Her Paris salon was a who's who of artists and writers: Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, André Derain, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Alfred North Whitehead, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Thornton Wilder, Sherwood Anderson, and Guillaume Apollinaire. "A rose is a rose is a rose."

• Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein

John Steinbeck
b. 2-27-1902, California
d. 12-20-1968; CT

John Steinbeck, who examined the lives of the working class and the migrant worker during the Great Depression through his novels, was the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. Steinbeck wrote Of Mice and Men (1937) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1940).

• History Through Literature- Grapes of Wrath poster
• Banned Books and Authors
• John Steinbeck at Amazon.com

Robert Louis Stevenson
b. 11-13-1850; Scotland
d. 12-3-1894

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish poet, novelist and travel writer whose classic stories include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Swiss Family Robinson (marooned and named Robinson) and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

• The Complete Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: With a Selection of the Best Short Novels

Bram Stoker
b. 11-8-1847; Ireland
d. 4-20-1912

Irish author Bram Stoker is best known as the author of 'Dracula'.

• Dracula: Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical, Historical and Cultural Contexts
• book cover posters

Harriet Beecher Stowe
b. 6-14-1811, CT
d. 7-1-1896

Abolitionist and novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) attacked the cruelty of slavery. Historians consider her efforts a significant force in leading to the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln said, when he met Stowe, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great great war!"

• Harriet Beecher Stowe posters
• more Writers Who Changed the World posters

Johan August Strindberg
b. 1-22-1849; Sweden
d. 5-14-1912

Best known for his play 'Miss Julie', Strindberg was also a telegrapher, painter, photographer and alchemist.

Jonathan Swift
b. 11-30-1667; Ireland
d. 10-19-1745

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels or Travel's into Several Remote Nations of the World, is a satire on human nature and petty differences, and a parody of the "travellers' tales" genre.

• G is for Gulliver's Travels alphabet poster
• Writings of Jonathan Swift
• Jonathan Swift in Irish Writers Composite poster