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

Kenneth Grahame
b. 3-8-1859; Edinburgh, Scotland
d. 7-6-1932; Pangbourne, Berkshire, England

Kenneth Grahame, unable to afford Oxford, worked at the Bank of England from 1879 till retirement in 1908.

While a young man in his 20s, Grahame began publishing short stories in periodicals; his masterpiece The Wind in the Willows (1908) features “four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England”.

Wind in the Willows -
They reached the carriage-drive of Toad Hall to find, as the Badger had anticipated, a shiny new motor-car, of great size, painted in a bright red (Toad's favourite colour), standing in front of the house. As they neared the door it was flung open, and Mr. Toad, arrayed in goggles, cap, gaiters, and enormous overcoat, came swaggering down the steps, drawing on his gauntleted gloves.

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Günter Grass
b. 10-16-1927; Danzig (Gdansk, Poland)

Author and playwright Günter Grass won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999 for “whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history.”

Gunter Grass quote ~
• “People have always told tales. Long before humanity learned to write and gradually became literate, everybody told tales to everybody else and everybody listened to everybody else's tales. Before long it became clear that some of the still illiterate storytellers told more and better tales than others, that is, they could make more people believe their lies.” Nobel Lecture

• The Gunter Grass Reader

Robert Graves
b. 7-24-1895; Wimbledon, England
d. 12-7-1985; Majorca, Spain

Robert Graves was the author of numerous historical novels such as I, Claudius, and his historical study of poetic inispiration, The White Goddess.

Graves served in WWI, being seriously wounded in trench warfare, which he describe in Good-bye to All That.

Graves was the great nephew of historian Leopold von Ranke.

Robert Graves quotes ~
• “Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.”
• “If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.”
• “To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.”

Thomas Gray
b. 12-26-1716; Cornhill, London, England
d. 7-30-1771; Cambridge

Poet Thomas Gray is best known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. He was also a professor at Cambridge.

Thomas Gray quotes ~
• “Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.”
• “The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”

• Thomas Gray: A Life