Author, Poet & Novelist Posters & Prints: “Las...-Lax...-”
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Margery Latimer
b. 2-6-1899; Portage, WI
d. 8-16-1932; Chicago (child birth)

Writer, feminist theorist, and social activist Margery Bodine Latimer published two highly respected novels and collections of short stories. She was often compared to Gertrude Stein, James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence.

Latimer was descended from Anne Bradstreet and John Cotton, was friends with author Zona Gale and Meridel Le Sueur, artist Georgia O'Keeffe and married to author Jean Toomer.

Heinrich Laube
b. 9-18-1806; Prussian Silesia (Germany)
d. 8-1-1884; Vienna

Dramatist, novelist and theater director Heinrich Laube is best remembered as a theater director and manager. He was part of “Das junge Deutschland” (Young Germany) a youth ideology that promoted the principles of democracy, socialism, and rationalism (1830-1850). Laube criticizism of the political regime in Germany led to police surveillance and having his works confiscated.

D. H. Lawrence,
b. 9-11-1885; Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England
d. 3-2-1930; Vence, France (complications of tuberculosis)

Author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary and social critic David Herbert Richards Lawrence spent most of his life in a voluntary exile that he called his “savage pilgrimage.” Today D. H. Lawrence is considered a visionary thinker for confronting issues of “emotional health, spontaneity, human sexuality and instinct.”

D. H. Lawrence quotes ~
• “Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it – if he wants a safe seat in the audience – let him read someone else.”
• “God is only a great imaginative experience.”
• “But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.”
• “Melville was, at the core, a mystic and an idealist.”

• Lady Chatterley's Lover

T. E. Lawrence
b. 8-16-1888; North Wales
d. 5-19-1935; injuries from motorcycle accident.

British Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, is best known as “Lawrence of Arabia” for his participation and exploits in the 1916-1918 Arab Revolt.

T. E. Lawrence quote ~
• “All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out otheir dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”

• Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
• Saudi Arabia posters

Halldor Laxness
b. 4-23-1902; Iceland
d. 2-8-1998

Halldor Laxness was awarded the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his vivid epic power which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland”.

Halldor Laxness quote ~
• “War has always been the chief amusement of mankind. Other amusements are a surrogate for war.”

• Under the Glacier