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

Marguerite Henry
née Breithaupt
b. 4-13-1902; Milwaukee, WI
d. 11-26-1997

Marguerite Henry authored nearly 60 books based on the true events in the lives of animals, usually horses. She sold her first story at age eleven; her Misty of Chincoteague, published in 1947, was an instant success.

Marguerite Henry quote ~
• “It is exciting to me that no matter how much machinery replaces the horse, the work it can do is still measured in horsepower ... even in the new age. And although a riding horse often weighs half a ton and a big drafter a full ton, either can be led about by a piece of string if he has been wisely trained. This to me is a constant source of wonder and challenge.”

• Marguerite Henry Treasury of Horses

O. Henry
b. 9-11-1862; Greensboro, NC
d. 6-5-1910; NYC (alcoholism)

O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter. His short stories are known for their clever endings.

FYI - Porter was related to theologian Jonathan Edwards.

O. Henry quotes ~
• “If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.”
• “By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.”

• The Best Short Stories of O. Henry
• O. Henry at Project Gutenberg

Frank Herbert
b. 10-8-1920; Tacoma, Washington
d. 2-11-1986; Madison, WI

Science fiction writer Frank Herbert was the author of Dune, the best-selling science fiction series.

George Herbert
b. 4-3-1593; Montgomery, Wales
d. 3-1-1633; Bemerton, Wiltshire, England (tuberculosis)

George Herbert, a metaphysical Welsh poet, orator and Anglican priest, is best remembered for “Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life”, “King of Glory, King of Peace” and “Let all the World in Every Corner Sing”.

Deeper Roots Motivational Poster “Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.”

• motivational posters

James Herriot
née James Alfred Wight
b. 10-3-1916; England
d. 2-23-1995

James Alfred Wight was a veterinary surgeon and writer best known for his semi-autobiographical stories, often referred to collectively as All Creatures Great and Small, written under his pen name James Herriot.

John Hersey
b. 6-17-1915; China
d. 3-24-1993; Key West, FL

John Hersey, the child of missionaries who learned to speak Chinese before English, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for in 1945 for A Bell for Adano. Hersey is best remembered as a journalist who used story-telling devices to report events.

FYI - did you know that it was John Hersey's challenge in a Life Magazine article for more interesting reading primers that prompted Theodore Geisel to write The Cat in the Hat.

John Hersey quote ~
• “At, exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.” — Opening sentence, Hiroshima, 1946

Theodor Herzl
b. 5-2-1860; Pest, Hungary
d. 3-24-1993; Edlach, Austria-Hungary (heart failure(

Journalist and playwright Theodor Herzl is the father of modern political Zionism and in effect the State of Israel.

Theodor Herzl quote ~
• “If you will it, it is no dream.”
• “But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home.”

Hermann Hesse
b. 7-2-1877; Germany
d. 8-9-1962

Author Hermann Hesse wrote his novel Demien, a story of individuation, in a three week period in 1917 after undergoing Jungian analysis.

Hesse was awarded the 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature for The Glass Bead Game.

Hermann Hesse quotes ~
• “I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”
• “It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.”
• “The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.”
• “There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.”
• “To study history one must know in advance that one is attempting something fundamentally impossible, yet necessary and hightly important. To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.” Magister Ludi (The Glass Bead Game)

• C. G. Jung & Hermann Hesse

Georgette Heyer
b. 8-16-1902; England
d. 7-4-1974

Georgette Heyer wrote historical romance and detective fiction novels usually set in the Regency period of England. Heyer is especially noted for the historic detail she used to enhance her stories.

Her first novel, “The Black Moth,” published in 1921, was written at the age of fifteen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last was “My Lord John”.

Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse
b. 3-15-1830; Germany
d. 4-2-1914

Paul von Heyse was awarded the 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature “as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories.”

John Heywood
b. c. 1497; Coventry
d. c. 1580; Mechelen, Belgium (in exile)

John Heywood is best remembered for his plays, poems, and collection of proverbs, and as the grandfather of John Donne. Unfortunately none of his works as a composer survive.

John Heywood quotes ~
• “Many hands make light work.”
• “Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low.”
• “If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.”
• “A hard beginning maketh a good ending.”
• “The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.”
• “When all candles be out, all cats be grey.”
• “Rome was not built in one day.”