Authors, Poets & Novelists Posters & Prints: “Eq...-Ew...-”
for the literature, language arts and social studies classrooms, home schoolers, and scholars.

Olaudah Equiano
aka Gustavus Vassa
b. c. 1745; near the Niger River
d. 3-31-1797; London, England

Olaudah Equiano's autobiography depicts his “kidnapping in Africa at the age of ten, his service as the slave of an officer in the British Navy, his ten years of labor on slave ships until he was able to purchase his freedom in 1766, and his life afterward as a leading and respected figure in the antislavery movement in England”, helping to influence British abolition of the slave trade through the Slave Trade Act of 1807.

Desiderius Erasmus Giclee Print, (Hans Holbein the Younger)

Desiderius Erasmus
b. 10-27-1466; Rotterdam
d. 7-12-1536; Basel

Desiderius Erasmus was a humanist - a teacher of grammar, rhetoric, moral philosophy, poetry and history as studied via classical authors, and a theologian.

Erasmus received his Doctor of Divinity at the Turin University.

Erasmus quotes ~
• “Fortune favors the audacious.”
• “He who allows oppression shares the crime.”
• “A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.”
• “I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.”
• “Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.”
• “In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
• “The desire to write grows with writing.”

• Desiderius Erasmus (Spiritual Leaders and Thinkers Series)
• The Erasmus Reader

Louise Erdrich
b. 6-7-1954; Little Falls, MN

Writer Louise Erdrich is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in North Dakota, where she was raised. She is the author of numereous award winning books such as Love Medicine (1984).

Fragment of a Poem by Wolfram of Eschenbach, Published by Fetis, Giclee Print

Wolfram of Eschenbach
b. c 1170; Germany
d. c 1220

• Parzival: With Titurel and the Love Lyrics, Wolfram von Eschenbach
• Richard Wagner Operas

Rudolf Christof Eucken
b. 1-5-1846; Aurich, Kingdom of Hanover Germany
d. 9-15-1926

Philosopher Rudolf Christof Eucken was awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature “in recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of thought, his wide range of vision, and the warmth and strength in presentation with which in his numerous works he has vindicated and developed an idealistic philosophy of life.”

Euripides
b. c. 480-406 BCE Greece

Euripides was the third of the three great Greek tragedians after Aeschylus and Sophocles. He is known primarily focusing on the inner lives of his characters that included strong women, smart slaves, and critizing many heroes of Greek mythology through satire.

Euripides quotes ~
• “Authority is never without hate.”
• “But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.”
• “Cleverness is not wisdom.”
• “Friends show their love in times of trouble.”
• “Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.”
• “Leave no stone unturned.”
• “Where there is no Wine there is no Love.” Euripides quote print

• Ten Plays by Euripides

Juliana Horatia Ewing
(née Gatty)
b. 8-3-1841; Ecclesfield, Sheffield, England
d. 5-13-1885

Juliana Horatia Ewing, who was the second of ten children, was the author of children's stories that often featured the family's acquaintances. Juliana's mother, Margaret Gatty, was also a children's author, and an amateur marine biologist of note.

Juliana Horatia Ewing quote ~
• “A fool and a knave once set up house together: which shows what a fool the Fool was.”

• Parables from Nature: With a memoir by her daughter Juliana Horatia Ewing