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

Charles Follen
b. 9-6-1796; Romrod, in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany
d. 1-13-1840; ship accident in Long Island Sound
Eliza Lee Cabot Follen
b. 8-15-1787; Boston, MA
d. 1-26-1860; Brookline, MA

Charles Follen was a poet, became the first professor of German at Harvard University, a Unitarian minister and abolitionist. He married Eliza Lee Cabot of the Boston Cabot family.

Eliza Lee Cabot Follen is noted for recording the nursery rhyme “Three Little Kittens”. She was friends with abolitionist William Ellery Channing, and Catharine Sedgwick, who introduced her to Follen.

Shelby Foote
b. 11-17-1916; Greenville, MS
d. 6-27-2005; Memphis, TN

Shelby Foote was a noted historian of the American Civil War. He also wrote novels and short stories based on geography and culture of the Mississippi Delta and the agrarian planter system of the Old South to the Civil Rights era of the New South.

Foote is probably best remembered as one of the commentators in Ken Burn's documentary The Civil War.

Shelby Foote quotes ~
• “I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.”
• “If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.”
• “Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.”
• “When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking.”

C. S. Forester
b. 8-27-1899; Cairo, Egypt
d. 4-2-1966; Fullerton, CA

C. S. Forester is the creator of the 11 book Horatio Hornblower series and The African Queen.

C. S. Forester quotes ~
• “A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.”
• “I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.”

Edward Morgan “E. M.” Forster
b. 1-1-1879; London
d. 6-6-1970

Novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist E. M. Forster is known best for his examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. His humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: “Only connect”.

E. M. Forster quotes ~
• “A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.”
• “Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.”
• “I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.”

• Great Novels and Short Stories of E. M. Forster (A Passage to India, A Room with a View)