Author, Poet & Novelist Posters & Prints: “Ki-Ku”
for the literature, language arts and social studies classrooms, home schoolers, and scholars.

Stephen King
b. 9-21-1947; Maine

Stephen King quotes ~
• “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
• “People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
• “The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.”

Mary Kingsley
b. 10-13-1862; England
d. 6-3-1900; South Africa

Mary Kingsley took care of her bedridden mother for years, serving as housekeeper, handyman, nursemaid, and servant; educating herself. In 1893 Mary broke free and traveled to West Africa, enduring the heat and hardships in her high-necked blouse, long skirt, and Victorian boots, to write of her travel adventures that could not have been predicted from her humble beginnings.

• Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa
• more explorer posters

Maxine Hong Kingston, Wall Poster

Maxine Hong Kingston
b. 10-27-1940; Stockton, CA

Poster Text: ... Maxine Hong Kingston believes that words have the power to change the world for the better. Through her books, she has enabled millions of people to better understand the Chinese culture, and she has brought people of all beliefs and backgounds a little closer together.

• more Maxine Hong Kingston posters
• more Great Asian Americans posters

Rudyard Kipling
b. 12-30-1865; India
d. 1-18-1936

Rudyard Kipling, poet and novelist, was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature “in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author.”

Rudyard Kipling quotes ~
• “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”
• “Everyone is more or less mad on one point.”
• “Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade.”

• Just So Stories book cover
• The Portable Kipling

Jerzy Kosinski
née Jozef Lewinkopf
b. 6-14-1933; Poland
d. 5-3-1991

Jerzy Kosinski, best rememberd as the author of Being There and The Painted Bird, survived the Holocaust thanks to those who offered assistance to Jewish Poles during WWII.

Milan Kundera
b. 4-1-1929; Czechoslovakia

Milan Kundera is best known as the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, which challenges Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of eternal recurrence (the universe and its events have already occurred and will recur ad infinitum). Kundera's alternative is that each person has only one life to live, and that which occurs in that life, occurs only once shall never occur again — thus the “lightness” opposed to either the tremendous burden or great benefit of eternal recurrance, depending on one's perspective.