Authors, Poets & Novelists Posters & Prints, “Bi...-”,
for the literature, language arts and social studies classrooms and homeschoolers.

Ambrose Bierce
b. 6-24-1842; Meigs Co., Ohio
d. c. 1914?, Mexico

Ambrose Bierce, a Civil War veteran, is best known for his short, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, and his sensational disappearance while observing the bandit Pancho Villa in the Mexican Revolution. In one of his last letters he said, “Good-bye — if you hear of my being stood up against a Mexican stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease, or falling down the cellar stairs. To be a Gringo in Mexico—ah, that is euthanasia!”

• Ambrose Bierce Quote poster - accordian
• Ambrose Bierce Quote poster - dentist
• The Devil's Dictionary

Saint Hildegard von Bingen
b. 1098; Germany
d. 9-17-1179

Saint Hildegard von Bingen should be considered a “polymath” (a person with varied knowledge and learning). She was an “abbess, artist, author, counselor, linguist, naturalist, teacher, scientist, philosopher, physician, herbalist, poet, activist, visionary, and composer”.

• Hildegard of Bingen: Scivias
• women artists posters

Elizabeth Bishop
b. 2-8-1911; Worcester, MA
d. 10-6-1979; Boston

Elizabeth Bishop, poet and teacher, was Poet Laureate of the United States (1949-50). She also won the 1956 Pulitzer Prize for Poems - North and South, the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and two Guggenheim Fellowships.

• The Complete Poems, 1927-1979

Isabella Bird Bishop
b. 10-15-1831; England
d. 10-7-1904; England

Isabella Bird Bishop was a sickly child and spent her entire life struggling with illness that may have been psychogenic, for when she was doing exactly what she wanted she was almost never ill. Her real desire was to travel and so conducted a life of travel supported by writing about her travels.

• Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, including a summer in the Upper Karun region and a visit to the Nestorian rayahs: Volume 1
• more explorer posters

Bjornstjerne Bjornson
b. 12-8-1832; Norway
d. 4-26-1910; Paris

Bjornstjerne Bjornson was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature “as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit.”