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

Susan Faludi
b. 4-18-1959; Queens, NY

Susan Faludi is a Pulitizer winning author and journalist. Her book Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women won the National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction in 1991.

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Frantz Fanon
b. 7-20-1925; Martinique
d. 12-6-1961;

Author Frantz Fanon, perhaps the pre-eminent thinker of the 20th century on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization, was also a psychiatrist.

Frantz Fanon quotes ~
• “In the world through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.”
• “He who is reluctant to recognize me, opposes me.”
• “What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary.”
• “Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.”
• “The life of the nation is shot through with a certain falseness and hypocrisy, which are all the more tragic because they are so often subconscious rather than deliberate ... The soul of the people is putrescent, and until that becomes regenerate and clean, no good work can be done.”

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James T. Farrell
b. 2-27-1904; Chicago, IL
d. 8-22-1979

Novelist James T. Farrell is best known for the Studs Lonigan trilogy, which was made into a film in 1960 and into a television miniseries in 1979. The trilogy was voted number 29 on the Modern Library's list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century.

Author and historian Studs Terkel said he took his nickname from the Studs Lonigan character.

William Faulkner
b. 9-25-1897; New Albany, MS
d. 7-6-1962

William Faulkner, one of the greatest American authors, is also one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. He was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature for “for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel.”

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Jessie Redmon Fauset
b. 4-27-1882; Fredericksville, New Jersey
d. 4-39-1961; Philadelphia (heart failure)

Jessie Redmon Fauset, a poet, novelist, essayist, is most noted as the literary editor of The Crisis (NAACP magazine) under W. E. B. Du Bois, a role for which Langston Hughes called her the “midwife of the Harlem Renaissance”.

Fauset, who earned a degree from Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania and the Sorbonne, was also a teacher for many years.

Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette
b. 3-18-1634; Paris
d. 5-25-1693

Madame de la Fayette is the author of La Princesse de Clèves, France's first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature.