Women Writers Posters & Prints, pg 6/10
for the language arts, social studies, history, art and science classrooms and home schoolers.

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

Selma Lagerlof was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909). She was the author of The Wonderful Adventures of Niles Holgersson, which began as a geography reader for the public schools. Future Nobel Prize winner Konrad Lorenz was very influenced by the book.

FYI - Greta Garbo's first major film role was in the dramatization of Lagerlof's novel Gösta Berlings saga.

Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace
b. 12-10-1815; England
d. 11-27-1852

Ada Lovelace was the only legitimate daughter of Lord Byron. She received early training as a mathematician and is considered to have written the first computer program in her correspondence with Charles Babbage about his early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine.

• Ada, Countess of Lovelace

Jane Loudon, née Webb
b. 8-19-1807; England
d. 1858

Jane Loudon is best known for illustrations and co-authoring gardening manuals with her husband, and not for being a pioneer in science fiction. Her novel Mummy! was written to support herself at age 17, when her father died penniless.

• botanists
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Amy Lawrence Lowell
b. 2-9-1874; Brookline, MA
d. 5-12-1925

Amy Lowell was awarded the Pulitizer Prize for Poetry in 1926.

Phyllis McGinley
b. 3-21-1905; Oregon
d. 2-22-1978; New York

Phyllis McGinley wrote children's books and won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

• Times Three, Selected verse from three decades.

Nicholasa Mohr
b. 1938; New York

“Summers in New York City’s Barrio were unbearable. Even when there was a cool spell, it seemed a long time before the dry fresh air could find a way past the concrete an asphalt, into the crowded buildings whch had become blazing furnaces.” Nilda

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Toni Morrison
b. 2-18-1931; Lorain, OH

Poster Text: ... Toni Morrison was born in the small town of Lorain, Ohio, in 1931 and given the name Chloe Anthony Wofford. But for much of her life has used the shortened version of her middle name, Toni. ... As a child, Toni was fascinated by stories. She was one of three black students in her first grade class, and the only student who could read. She remembers how her parents told her wonderfully scary stories, and how her grandmother kept a "dream book" in which she wrote down her dreams and tried to explain what they meant. As a teenager, Toni devoured great novels by writers like Leo Tolstoy and Jane Austen. ...

• Toni Morrison posters
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