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

Pearl S. Buck
b. 6-26-1892; West Virginia
d. 3-6-1973; Vermont

“We will eat meat that we can beg or buy, but not that which we steal. Beggars we may be but thieves we are not.” The Good Earth

Buck was the 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature receipient “for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces”.

FYI ~ Luise Rainer was awarded the 1937 Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in TThe Good Earth.

Guillaume Budé
b. 1-26-1467; Paris, Kingdom of France
d. 8-23-1540; Paris

Guillaume Budé is best remembered as a scholar who authored works in Greek and Latin that contributed to the study of Roman law and Greek literature.

Budé corresponded with Erasmus and Thomas More, their work forshadowing Montaigne; he also founded the collection that would be the foundation for the Bibliothèque Nationale.

Charles Bukowski
b. 8-16-1920; Andernach, Germany
d. 3-9-1994; Los Angeles, CA (leukemia)

Poet, novelist and short story writer Charles Bukowski, influenced by the social, cultural and economics times he lived in, as well as his personal alcoholism and the drudgery of work, told the stories of ordinary poor Americans. He was called a “laureate of American lowlife” by TIME magazine.

Charles Bukowski quotes ~
• “We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
• “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
• “An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”

• There's No Business

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
b. 5-25-1803; London, England
d. 1-18-1873; Torquay

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, was a politician, poet, playwright, and prolific novelist who is barely remembered today though phrases he coined like “the great unwashed”, “pursuit of the almighty dollar” (The Coming Race, 1871), “the pen is mightier than the sword” (Richelieu, Or the Conspiracy, 1839), and the famous opening line “It was a dark and stormy night” (opening line of Paul Clifford, 1830) are burned into our collective memory.

• Collected Works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
b. 10-22-1870; Russia
d. 11-8-1953; Paris (heart attack)

Ivan Bunin was awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize in Literature “for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing”.

• Collected Stories of Ivan Bunin

John Bunyan
b. 11-28-1628; Bedfordshire, England
d. 8-31-1688

Christian writer and preacher John Bunyan is famous for writing The Pilgrim's Progress, arguably one of the most widely known allegories ever written.

One of Bunyan's allegories was the Slough of Depond, a mire where we are weighed down by sin.

John Bunyan quotes ~
• “When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.”
• “Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of His power, and the contempt of His love.”
• “Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.”
• “The more he cast away the more he had.”