Authors, Poets & Novelists Posters & Prints, “Bar...-”
for the literature, language arts and social studies classrooms and homeschoolers.

Amiri Baraka
née Everett LeRoi Jones
b. 10-7-1934; Newark, NJ
d. 1-9-2014; Newark

Amiri Baraka is an award winning poet and playwright whose work generates controvery. He was associated with black nationalism in the 1960s and aligned with Marxism in the 1970s.

• The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader
• more Black History posters

Anna Laetitia Barbauld
b. 6-29-1743; Leicestershire, England
d. 3-9-1825; Stoke Newington

• Lessons for Children: Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Children's literature, Pedagogy, John Locke, Maria Edgeworth, Sarah Trimmer, Jane Taylor, Ellenor Fenn, Romanticism

Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly
b. 11-2-1808; Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, Manche, France
d, 4-23-1889; Paris

Novelist and short story writer, Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, specialized in mystery tales. He explored hidden motivations and hinted at evil without being explicitly concerned with the supernatural. He is considered an example of the extremes of late romanticism, and an influence on writers Henry James and Marcel Proust.

Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly quotes ~
• “The Devil teaches women what they are – or they would teach it to the Devil if he did not know.”

• Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly at Amazon

Richard H. Barham,
aka Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor
b. 12-6-1788; Canterbury, England
d. 6-17-1845; London

FYI - Barham is also the author of the poem As I laye a-thynkynge that was set to music by composer Edward Elgar. And an early version of “Bingo Was His Name-O” is from the Ingoldsby Legends.

• The Life and Letters of the Rev. Richard Harris Barham V1: Author of the Ingoldsby Legends, with a Selection from His Miscellaneous Poems

Joel Barlow
b. 3-24-1754; Redding, CT
d. 12-26-1812

J. M. Barrie
b. 5-9-1860; Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland
d. 6-19-1937; London

Sir James Matthew Barrie, was the author of the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up.

FYI ~ Barrie was friends with William Earnest Henley whose very young daughter Margaret called Barrie “fwendy” which became “Wendy” of Peter Pan.

• Maude Adams as Peter Pan
• Pauline Chase, actress noted for her characterization of Peter Pan.
• Mary Martin, Broadway
• Peter Pan ballet