Authors, Poets & Novelists Posters & Prints, “U...-”
for literature, language arts and social studies classrooms and home schoolers.

Evelyn Underhill
b. 12-6-1875; England
d. 6-15-1941

Evelyn Underhill is considered a Christian mystic who wrote prolifically on mysticism and the practice of religion. In her book Mysticism (1911) she describes the quest as “. . . refuses to be satisfied with that which other men call experience, and is inclined . . . 'to deny the world in order that it may find reality'."

Sigrid Undset
b. 5-20-1882; Denmark
d. 6-10-1949; Norway

Sigrid Undset was awarded the 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature for “principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages”. Her best known works are Kristin Lavransdatter and The Master of Hestviken tetralogy.

John Updike
b. 3-18-1932; Reading, Pennsylvania
d. 1-27-2009; Massachusetts

John Updike, whose major themes were “religion, sex and America”, is considered one of the finest authors of his generation.

John Updike quotes
• “America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.”
• “Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.”
• “The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.”
• “The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on their parents. So they provided jails called school, equipped with tortures called education.”

• Rabbit Angstrom : The Four Novels : Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest; John Updike