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

Eric Knight
b. 4-10-1897; Menston, Yorkshire, England
d. 1-15-1943; air crash in Suriname

Eric Knight's, This Above All, is considered one of the significant novels of the Second World War, but he is better known as the creator of Lassie.

At the time of his death he was a major in the Special Services of the U.S. Army.

Eric Knight quotes ~
• “Rain or shine, the dog was always there, waiting for a boy - one of dozens who would come pelting across the concrete playground - but for the dog, the only one who mattered.”
• “Generally, when a man raised an expecially fine dog, some day it would stop being a dog and instead would become something on four legs that was worth money.”

FYI ~ the title of This Above All is from the character Polonius “...This above all: to thine ownself be true, ...” in Hamlet by William Shakespeare.

Arthur Koestler
b. 9-5-1905; Budapest, Hungary
d. 3-3-1983; London (diagnosed with Parkinson & leukemia, suicide)

Arthur Koestler, an author best known for his essays, novels and autobiographies, began his writing career as a journalist. Among his work are Darkness at Noon and The Ghost in the Machine.

Arthur Koestler quotes ~
• “A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.”
• “Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.”
• “Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.”
• “True creativity often starts where language ends.”
• “Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.”

Jerzy Kosinski
née Jozef Lewinkopf
b. 6-14-1933; Lodz, Poland
d. 5-3-1991; NYC (suicide)

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.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes ~
• “There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.”
• “Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.”
• “I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person.”
• “I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.”
• “The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.”

Milan Kundera
b. 4-1-1929; Brno, 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.

Thomas Kyd
bap. 11-6-1558; London, England
buried. 8-15-1594

Dramatist Thomas Kyd, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, was one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama.

FYI -Thomas Kyd shared rooms with Christopher Marlowe.

Thomas Kyd quotes ~
• “Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.”
• “In time the savage bull sustains the yoke, / In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure. / In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, / In time the flint is pierced with softest shower.”