Authors, Poets & Novelists Posters & Prints: “Cho...-Chu...-”
for literature & language arts classrooms, homeschoolers, and scholars.

Noam Chomsky
b. 12-7-1928; Philadelphia, PA

Noam Chomsky is a linguisitcs and analytic philosopher well known as a political dissident, anarchist and libertarian socialist.

Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar from 1980 to 1992, and is also the eighth most cited source of all time.

He is currently professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Kate Chopin
née O'Flaherty
b. 2-8-1851; St. Louis, MO
d. 8-22-1904; St. Louis, MO

Short story writer and novelist Kate Chopin, an avid reader as a child, was prescribed to write as a means of overcoming depression after the death of her husband and mother. Today she is considered to be a forerunner in feminist literature.

Kate Chopin quotes ~
• “But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!” The Awakening
• “To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.”
• “I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.”
• “I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe . . . ?”

• Kate Chopin: Complete Novels and Stories: At Fault / Bayou Folk / A Night in Acadie / The Awakening / Uncollected Stories
• more Women Writers posters
• 19th Cent Authors posters

Agatha Christie
b. 9-15-1890; Torquay, Devon, England
d. 1-12-1976; Wallingford, Oxfordshire

Agatha Christie, the author of novels, short stories and plays, was the creator of detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, is also noted as the best-selling writer of any kind, along with William Shakespeare.

Only the Bible is known to have outsold her collected sales of roughly four billion copies of novels and UNESCO states that she is currently the most translated individual author in the world.

FYI - Agatha Christie was friends with author Eden Phillpotts.

Agatha Christie quotes ~
• “An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.”
• “Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.”
• “I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”

• Agatha Christie Books

Winston Churchill
b. 11-30-1874; Blenheim Palace
d. 1-24-1965

Winston Churchill quotes ~
• “Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”
• “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.” May, 1940
• “But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.” June, 1940
• “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” August, 1940
• “A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
• “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
• “Eating words has never given me indigestion.”
• “Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.”
• “I am easily satisfied with the very best.”
• “This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.” (attributed)