Authors, Poets & Novelists Posters & Prints, "N-R", pg 8
for literature, language arts and social studies classrooms and home schoolers.

Vladimir Nabokov
b. 4-22-1899; Russia
d. 7-2-1977; Switzerland

• The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
• Lolita Cover print

Ogden Nash
b. 8-19-1902; NY
d. 5-19-1971

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely!

• Candy Is Dandy: The Best of Ogden Nash

Eugene O'Neill / TIME Cover: March 17, 1924, TIME Magazine
b. 10-16-1888; NYC
d. 11-27-1953

• 1936 Nobel Prize for Literature
• Eugene O'Neill: Complete Plays 1932-43

Publius Ovidius Naso
b. 43 BC, Sulmona, Italy
d. 17 AD

Publius Ovidius Naso, a Roman poet better known as Ovid in the English speaking world, was the medieval magister amoris, “master of love”. His most famous work was Metamorphoses, an epic poem drawing on Greek mythology, such as the story of crocus.

Dorothy Parker, American Writer
b. 8-22-1893; Long Branch, NJ
d. 6-7-1967; NY

Dorothy Parker was an American author, screenwriter (A Star is Born) and poet known for her caustic wit and wisecracks. She was a founding member of the Algonquin Roundtable. Parker bequeathed her estate to the Dr. Martin Luther King Foundation.

• Collected Works of Dorothy Parker poster
• The Portable Dorothy Parker
• Notable Women posters

Boris Pasternak
b. 2-10-1890; Moscow
d. 5-30-1960

• 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

Samuel Pepys, FRS
b. 2-23-1633; London
d. 5-26-1703; England

Samuel Pepys, most noted for the diary he kept between 1660-1669, is one of the most important primary history sources for the English Restoration period. The diary provides eyewitness reports of the Great Plague of London (1665), the Great Fire of London (1666), and several floods of the River Thames.

• The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Saint-John Perse (Alexis Léger)
b. 5-31-1887; Guadeloupe
d. 9-20-1975

• 1960 Nobel Prize for Literature
• Anabasis: A Poem

Charles Perrault
b. 1-6-1628; France
d. 5-16-1703

Charles Perrault was a French author who laid foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale. He was the brother of French architect Claude Perrault.

Francesco Petrarca
“Petrarch”
b. 7-20-1304; Italy
d. 7-19-1374

Petrarch, called the “father of humanism”, was a priest for a few years, and one of the earliest Penaissance scholars and poets. In 1341 he became the first poet laureate since antiquity, hence Petrarch is often portrayed crowned with a laural wreath.

Petrarch is also considered one of the earliest tourists in that he traveled for pleasure. In 1336 he had a “peak experience” in his climb of Mont Ventoux in southern France; he said “[W]e look about us for what is to be found only within. .... How many times, think you, did I turn back that day, to glance at the summit of the mountain which seemed scarcely a cubit high compared with the range of human contemplation ... ”. Jungian analyst James Hillman called Petrarch's rediscovery of the inner world the beginning of the Renaissance.

Petrarch's muse was Laura whom he adored from afar, and inspired his most famous works.

Petrarch, also considered an historian, is credited with coining the phrase “Dark Ages” to describe the dismal quality of the era preceding his own.

• The Portable Petrarch

Luigi Pirandello
b. 6-28-1867; Italy
d. 12-10-1936

• 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature
• Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays

Sylvia Plath
b. 10-27-1932; Boston
d. 2-11-1963; London

A Troubled Genius - Few poets in the 20th century literature could match the lyricism and emotional intensity of Sylvia Plath's work. Afflicted with bipolar disorder, Plath transformed her inner turmoil into poems full of sadness, anger, and beauty– combining a sense of profound loss with surprising personal strength. Though she lived only a short time, Plath not only inspired admiration and imitation – she also helped launch an emerging feminist movement.

• Notable Authors posters
• The Bell Jar
• Bell Jar poster

Filipe Guaman Poma de Ayala
b. c. 1550; Peru
d. after 1616

Guaman Poma, an indigenous Peruvian and son of a noble Inca family, expressed his disillusionment of the Spanish treatment of the native Andes peoples with his illustrated chronicle, Nueva Crónica y Buen Gobierno (The First New Chronicle and Good Government). The 1200 page book has 398 full page drawings by Guaman Poma and text where he blended his native Quechua phrases with the Spanish language, just as his name is a blend of native and Spanish names.

• art history & art education posters

Francois Rabelais
b. ca. 1493; France
d. 4-9-1553

Francois Rabelais, French satirist, doctor and humanist in the Renaissance era, used bawdy jokes and songs to make social commentary on the times.

His writing, which kept him under constant threat of being labeled a heretic then, and can even shock readers today, have been a source of inspiration for artists in many genre. Jules Massenet based his opera Panurge on Rabelais work, and Rumplestiltskin is first mentioned in an adaption of of Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel.

• Gargantua and Pantagruel: The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel, Francois Rabelais

Rabelais quotes:
• “A habit does not a monk make.”
• “Debts and lies are generally mixed together.”
• “Half the world does not know how the other half lives.”
• “I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.”
• “How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?”
• “Science without conscience is the death of the soul.”
• “There are more old drunkards than old physicians.”
• “Everything comes in time to those who can wait.”

Arthur Rimbaud
b. 10-20-1854; France
d. 11-10-1891

• Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters, a Bilingual Edition

Romain Rolland
b. 1-29-1866, France
d. 11-30-1944

• 1915 Nobel Prize for Literature

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
b. 6-28-1712; Geneva, Switzerland
d. 7-2-1778; France

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, an Enlightenment philosopher, and literary figure whose political philosophy and socialist theory influenced the French Revolution, was also a composer. The modern subjective autobiographical genre was initiated in Rousseau's Confessions and is reflected in the work of thinkers from Hegel and Freud; his fictional work was among the most popular novels of the eighteenth century and was important to the evolution of Romanticism. Rousseau has been buried in Paris Pantheon since 1794.

• The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau

John Ruskin
b. 2-8-1819; London
d. 1-20-1900

John Ruskin is best known as an art, architecture, and social critic. His theories about social justice influenced the development of the British Labour party and of Christian socialism. Ruskin gave away most of his inheritance, founding a charity and funding housing reform.

• Mountainous Landscape by John Ruskin
• Great Thinker Quote- John Ruskin
• The Seven Lamps of Architecture, John Ruskin
• Praeterita (authbiography), John Ruskin