Authors, Poets & Novelists Posters & Prints: “Fr...-”
for the literature, language arts and social studies classrooms, home schoolers, and scholars.

Anatole France, born François-Anatole Thibault
b. 4-16-1844; Paris, France
d. 10-12-1924; Tours

Anatole France was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature “in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament.”

• Great Novels of Anatole France: Penguin Island, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, The Revolt of the Angels

Anne Frank
b. 6-12-1929; Frankfurt am Main, Germany
d. Feb/March, 1945; Bergen-Belsen Camp

“I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.”

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Benjamin Franklin
b. 1-17-1706; Boston, MA
d. 4-17-1790; Philadelphia, PA

In addition to being a brilliant scientific investigator known in his day as “the wizard of electricity” Franklin was an author, printer, publisher and statesman.

“Do not squander time - for that is the stuff life is made of.” -Benjamin Franklin

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Antonia Fraser, née Pakenham
b. 8-27-1932; London, England

Lady Antonia Fraser wrote biographies of Mary, Queen of Scots, Oliver Cromwell, Charles II, and Marie Antoinette.

Fraser is the widow of Harold Pinter, the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature.

Antonia Fraser quotes ~
• “If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.”
• “I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.”
• “We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.”

James George Frazer
b. 1-1-1854; Glasgow, Scotland
d. 5-7-1941; Cambridge

James George Frazer, a social anthropologist, was the author of The Golden Bough which documents magical and religious beliefs.

Marilyn French
b. 11-21-1929; Brooklyn, NY
d. 5-2-2009; Manhattan

Marilyn French was the author of The Women's Room: A Novel portraying feminist movement of the 1950s and 60s.

Betty Friedan
b. 2-4-1921; Peoria, IL
d. 2-4-2006; Washington, DC

Betty Friedan, feminist, activist, and writer, is best remembered for her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique and cofounding the National Organization for Women (NOW).

Robert Frost
b. 3-26-1874; San Francisco, CA
d. 1-29-1963; Washington, DC

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening

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