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

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.

Edgar Guest
b. 8-20-1881; Birmingham, England
d. 8-5-1959; Detroit, MI

Edgar Guest, known as the “People's Poet”, wrote nearly 11,000 poems of a sentimental and optimist nature. He was made the Poet Laureate of Michigan and hosted a weekly radio show. His niece was author Judith Guest (Ordinary People).

John Gunther
b. 8-30-1901; Illinois
d. 5-29-1970

Journalist John Gunther covered every country in Europe except Portugal between 1924-1936 but he is best remembered for his book Death Be Not Proud, the story of his son, Johnny, who died of a brain tumor at the age of 17.

A. B. Guthrie
b. 1-13-1901; Bedford, IN
d. 4-26-1991

Journalist, novelist, and historian Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Jr., who was raised in Montana, won the Pulitizer Prize for Fiction in 1950 for his The Way West. He also wrote the screen play for the western Shane.