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

Eugene Field
b. 9-2-1850; St. Louis, MO
d. 11-4-1895; Chicago, IL

Eugene Field, best remembered for his children's poetry and humorous essays, is the namesake of numerous elementary schools, particularly in the Midwest. One of Field's best known poems is Wynken, Blynken, and Nod.

Eugene Field quotes ~
• “Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night / Sailed off in a wooden shoe - / Sailed on a river of crystal light, / Into a sea of dew.”
• “Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.”

• Eugene Field - Poems of Childhood

Henry Fielding
b. 4-22-1707; Sharpham, Glastonbury, Somerset, England
d. 10-8-1754; near Lisbon, Portugal

English novelist and dramatist, Henry Fielding, is known for his satire and earthy humour exemplified by his novel The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling.

Henry Fielding quotes ~
• “Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.”
• “All nature wears one universal grin.”
• “I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.”
• “It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.”
• “Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.”

• The Genius of Henry Fielding with Selections from His Works
• ‘Tom Jones' movie poster

FYI ~ Fielding wrote several roles for the actress Kitty Clive in his plays.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
b. 2-17-1879; Lawrence, KS
d. 11-9-1958; Vermont

Dorothy Canfield was an author, educator and humanitarian who was named one of the ten most influential women in America by Eleanor Roosevelt. Canfield-Fisher was one of the early promotors of Maria Montessori's educational method, as well as leading the first adult education program in the US, and a member of the “Book of the Month Club” selection committee. She was the author of A Montessori Mother (1912), and of Understood Betsy, describing a Montessori style education.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes ~
• “A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary.”
• “Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.”
• “Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”

M. F. K. Fisher
b. 7-3-1908; Albion, MI
d. 6-22-1992; California

Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher dealt primarily with food, considering it from many aspects: preparation, natural history, culture, and philosophy.

M. F. K. Fisher quotes ~
• “People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do?" . . . The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.”
• “Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.”
• “. . . word-sniffing . . . is an addiction, like glue -- or snow -- sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way, physically if not economically . . . . As an addict, I am almost guiltily interested in converts to my own illness . . .”
• “Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald
b. 9-24-1896; St. Paul, MN
d. 12-21-1940 (heart attack)

F. Scott Fitzgerald, recognized as one of the greatest authors of the 20th century, is best known for This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and Tender is the Night (1934).

Fitzgerald, who was a distant cousin of the Frances Scott Key, author of the Star Spangled Banner, ruined his health with drinking and living the life-style he wrote about.

FYI ~ One of the characters in The Great Gatsby, the golfer Jordan Baker, was based on Chicago socialite Edith Cummings.

F. Scott Fistgerald quotes ~
• “It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.” The Great Gatsby

• Fitzgerald, 20th Century American Authors series

Zelda Fitzgerald
b. 7-24-1900; Montgomery, Alabama
d. 3-10-1948; NC

Zelda Fitzgerald, the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, wrote Save Me the Waltz, an autiobiographical tale.

• Save Me the Waltz book cover poster