Author, Poet & Novelist Posters & Prints: "J - K - L", pg 6/11
for the literature, language arts and social studies classrooms, home schoolers, and scholars.

Henry James
b. 4-15-1843; NYC
d. 2-28-1916; London

• The Portable Henry James
• Henry James quote ecard -"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."

Juan Ramon Jimenez,
Spanish Poet
b. 12-24-1881; Spain
d. 5-29-1958

• 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature

Dr. Samuel Johnson
b. 9-18-1709; England
d. 12-13-1784

Samuel Johnson, one of England's best known literary figures, was a noted essayist, poet, biographer, lexicographer and critic; he also was a teacher for a time. It is said he is the single most quoted English writer after Shakespeare. Samuel Johnson spent many years living in the home of diarist Hester Thrale and her husband; he also was long time friend with actor David Garrick, and formed "The Club" with friend and painter Joshua Reynolds that included Oliver Goldsmith and philosopher Edmund Burke.

• Samuel Johnson: The Major Works
• "Clear your mind of can't" quote poster

Ben Jonson
b. 6-11-1572; England
d. 8-6-1637

• Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques

James Joyce / TIME Cover: January 29, 1934, TIME Magazine
b. 2-2-1882; Ireland
d. 1-13-1941; Zurich

• The Portable James Joyce
• James Joyce in Irish Writers Composite poster

Franz Kafka
b. 7-3-1883; Prague
d. 6-3-1924

• The Complete Stories, Franz Kafka

Yasunari Kawabata
b. 6-14-1899; Japan
d. 4-16-1972

• 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature

John Keats, Poet
b. 10-31-1795; England
d. 2-23-1821

• John Keats poetry page
• Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats

Stephen King- the Mystery Man

• more Maine 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."

• Just So Stories book cover
• The Portable Kipling

Selma Lagerlof
b. 11-20-1858; Sweden
d. 3-16-1940

Selma Lagerlof was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909) "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings."

• The Wonderful Adventures of Niles Holgersson

D. H. Lawrence,
b. 9-11-1885; England
d. 3-2-1930; Italy

• The Man Who Died book cover poster
• 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.

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

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

• 1955 Nobel Prize for Literature

C.S. Lewis
b. 11-29-1898; Belfast
d. 11-22-1963

• The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics

Sinclair Lewis
b. 2-7-1885; Sauk Center, MN
d. 1-10-1951; Rome

• Lewis: Main Street and Babbitt

Walter Lippman / TIME Cover: September 27, 1937
TIME Magazine
b. 9-23-1889; NYC
d. 12-14-1974

• The Good Society by Walter Lippmann

Jack London
b. 1-12-1876; San Francisco
d. 11-22-1916; Glen Ellen, CA

Jack London, author of Call of the Wild (1903), was "one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing".

• The Call of the Wild, History Through Literature poster

Lope Felix de Vega Carpio
b. 11-25-1562, Madrid
d. 8-27-1635, Madrid

• Three Major Plays of Lope de Vega

James Russell Lowell
b. 2-2-1819; Cambridge, MA
d. 8-12-1891; Cambridge

James Russell Lowell, a Romantic poet, a satirist, a diplomat (Spain, London), an abolitionist, and the first editor of The Atlantic Monthly, was also the godfather of Virginia Woolf.

• Odes, Lyrics, and Sonnets from the Poetic Works of James Russell Lowell

Lucian of Samosata
c. 125 - 180 AD

Lucian, who called himself an Assyrian (Syrian) and wrote in Greek, was a rhetorician whose satirical manner rideculed 'tyrants, prophets, waning gods, ahd hypocritical philosophers'. Today we might call him a pundit. Lucian is also considered the 'Father of Science Fiction' for his phantastic tales of space voyages, extraterrestial life, and planetary wars long before H. G. Wells and Jules Verne.

• Selected Satire of Lucian