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

Pearl S. Buck
b. 6-26-1892; West Virginia
d. 3-6-1973; Vermont

“We will eat meat that we can beg or buy, but not that which we steal. Beggars we may be but thieves we are not.” The Good Earth

Buck was the 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature receipient “for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces”.

Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
b. 10-22-1870; Russia
d. 11-8-1953; Paris (heart attack)

Ivan Bunin was awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize in Literature “for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing”.

• Collected Stories of Ivan Bunin

John Bunyan
b. 11-28-1628; England
d. 8-31-1688

Christian writer and preacher John Bunyan is famous for writing The Pilgrim's Progress, arguably one of the most widely known allegories ever written.

John Bunyan quotes -
• “When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.”
• “Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of His power, and the contempt of His love.”
• “Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.”
• “The more he cast away the more he had.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett
b. 11-24-1849; Manchester, England
d. 10-29-1924

Frances Hodgson Burnett, author and playwright, is best remembered for her children's stories that include The Secret Garden and Little Lord Fauntleroy.

• Simile - Literary Techniques poster

Fanny (Frances) Burney
b. 6-13-1752; England
d. 1-6-1840

Fanny Burney, Jane Austen's favorite author, exposed the image-conscious and social snobbery of urban England with a sense of the comic. Burney was also friends with art patroness and diarist Hester Thrale who fell out of Burney's favor when Hester “remarried beneath” her station.

FYI, Burney was also known as Mme d'Arblay.

• Evelina

Robert Burns
b. 1-25-1759; Scotland
d. 7-21-1796 (tuberculosis)

Robert Burns was the Scottish National Poet.

• The Complete Works of Robert Burns

Edgar Rice Burroughs
b. 9-1-1875; Chicago, IL
d. 3-19-1950; Encino, CA

Edgar Rice Burroughs created Tarzan, one of the most recognizable character in literature, and numerous science fiction and fantasy stories. FYI - The name “Tarzan” in copyrighted, and the community of Tarzana, CA is named after the character.

Edgar Rice Burroughs quote ~
• “...if people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines, that I could write stories just as rotten. As a matter of fact, although I had never written a story, I knew absolutely that I could write stories just as entertaining and probably a whole lot more so than any I chanced to read in those magazines.”

• Tarzan and the Ant Men (book)

William S. Burroughs,
b. 2-5-1914; Missouri
d. 8-2-1997; Kansas

William S. Burroughs quote ~
• “In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.”
• “Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
• “Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.”
• “A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.”
• “Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.”

• Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

Lord Byron
b. 1-22-1788; London, England
d. 4-19-1824; Greece (malaria)

• The Love Poems of Lord Byron: A Romantic's Passion, George Gordon Byron
• poetry forms posters
• Lord Byron's daughter, Ada Lovelace, author of the first computer program