Authors, Poets & Novelists Posters & Prints: “Fr...-”
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Anatole France, born François-Anatole Thibault
b. 4-16-1844; Paris, France
d. 10-12-1924; Tours

Anatole France was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature “in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament.”

Anatole France quote
• “History is not a science, it is an art, and a man succeeds in it only by imagination.”

• Great Novels of Anatole France: Penguin Island, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, The Revolt of the Angels

Anne Frank
b. 6-12-1929; Frankfurt am Main, Germany
d. Feb/March, 1945; Bergen-Belsen Camp

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

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Benjamin Franklin
b. 1-17-1706; Boston, MA
d. 4-17-1790; Philadelphia, PA

In addition to being a brilliant scientific investigator known in his day as “the wizard of electricity” Franklin was an author, printer, publisher and statesman.

“Do not squander time - for that is the stuff life is made of.” -Benjamin Franklin

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Antonia Fraser, née Pakenham
b. 8-27-1932; London, England

Lady Antonia Fraser wrote biographies of Mary, Queen of Scots, Oliver Cromwell, Charles II, and Marie Antoinette.

Fraser is the widow of Harold Pinter, the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature.

Antonia Fraser quotes ~
• “If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.”
• “I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.”
• “We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.”

James George Frazer
b. 1-1-1854; Glasgow, Scotland
d. 5-7-1941; Cambridge

James George Frazer, a social anthropologist, was the author of The Golden Bough which documents magical and religious beliefs.

James George Fraser quotes ~
• “Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.”
• “The world cannot live at the level of its great men.”

Marilyn French
b. 11-21-1929; Brooklyn, NY
d. 5-2-2009; Manhattan

Marilyn French was the author of The Women's Room: A Novel portraying feminist movement of the 1950s and 60s.

Marilyn French quote ~
• “In the beginning was the Mother, the Word began a new era, one we have come to call Patriarchy.”

Betty Friedan
b. 2-4-1921; Peoria, IL
d. 2-4-2006; Washington, DC

Betty Friedan, feminist, activist, and writer, is best remembered for her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique and cofounding the National Organization for Women (NOW).

Betty Friedan ~
• “Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
• “Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.”
• “There needs to be bolder thinking, ... on how to measure the quality of life of men and women in the work force. Currently, success is measured by material advancements. We need to readjust the definition of success to account for time outside of work and satisfaction of life, not just the dollars-and-cents bottom line.”

Robert Frost
b. 3-26-1874; San Francisco, CA
d. 1-29-1963; Washington, DC

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening

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