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

Christopher Smart
b. 4-11-1722; Shipbourne, England
d. 5-21-1771; debtors prison, London

Christopher Smart, also known as “Kit Smart”, is best remembered as a religious poet and for having written his exuberant lyric ‘A Song to David’ and the cryptic ‘Jubilate Agno’ while locked away in a madhouse at the suggestion of his father-in-law, the publisher John Newbery (namesake of the Newbery Award).

Lillian Smith
b. 12-12-1897; Jasper, FL
d. 9-28-1966

Social critic and activist Lillian Smith is best remembered for her best-selling 1944 novel Strange Fruit. Smith, Southern born and raised, openly supported unpopular stances on the issues of race and gender equality, calling for the removal of Jim Crow laws. Lillian Smith was also a teacher, the director of the family owned girl's summer camp in Georgia, and publisher with long time companion Paula Snelling of the literary magazine South Today.

Lillian Smith quotes ~
• “Rich folks always talk hard times.”
• “Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.”

Tobias Smollett
b. 3-19-1721; Renton, Scotland
d. 9-17-1771; Italy

Tobias Smollett was a poet and author best known for his picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751), which influenced later novelists such as Charles Dickens. He was also qualified as a surgeon.

Lemony Snicket,
née Daniel Handler
b. 2-28-1970; San Francisco

Lemony Snicket is both the legal nom de plume of novelist Daniel Handler and a fictional character within a series of children's books written by Handler.

• The Trouble Begins: A Box of Unfortunate Events, Books 1-3

Edgar Snow
b. 7-17-1905; Kansas City, MO
d. 2-15-1972; Geneva

Journalist Edgar Snow started out on a round the world trip in 1928 and ended up spending staying in China until 1941. He is best remembered for his 1937 book, Red Star Over China, about the Chinese Communist movement. He is believed to be the first Western to interview Mao Zedong.