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

William Ernest Henley
b. 8-23-1849; Glouschester, England
d. 7-11-1903

Poet, critic and editor William Ernest Henley, who is best remembered for his 1875 poem “Invictus”.

Henley suffered from tuberculosis of the bone and at age 12 had his left leg amputated below the knee. He later was able to keep from having his right leg amputated through the endeavors of pioneering surgeon Joseph Lister.

Henley and his family have several notable literary connections. His very young daughter Margaret called their family friend J. M. Barrie “fwendy” which became “Wendy” of Peter Pan. Robert Louis Stevenson revealed in a letter that Henley had served as inspiration for the one legged character “Long John Silver” in Treasure Island.

The poem has been inspiration for many and lent a title to a 2009 movie about Nelson Mandela. “Invictus” lines have also been used in the 1942 film Casablanca, and in the 1945 film Kings Row, and uttered by Timothy McVey on the day of his execution.

Marguerite Henry
née Breithaupt
b. 4-13-1902; Milwaukee, WI
d. 11-26-1997

Marguerite Henry authored nearly 60 books based on the true events in the lives of animals, usually horses. She sold her first story at age eleven; her Misty of Chincoteague, published in 1947, was an instant success.

Marguerite Henry quote ~
• “It is exciting to me that no matter how much machinery replaces the horse, the work it can do is still measured in horsepower ... even in the new age. And although a riding horse often weighs half a ton and a big drafter a full ton, either can be led about by a piece of string if he has been wisely trained. This to me is a constant source of wonder and challenge.”

• Marguerite Henry Treasury of Horses
• Chincoteague & Assateague Barrier Islands

O. Henry
b. 9-11-1862; Greensboro, NC
d. 6-5-1910; NYC (alcoholism)

O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter. His short stories are known for their clever endings.

FYI - Porter was related to theologian Jonathan Edwards.

O. Henry quotes ~
• “If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.”
• “By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.”

• The Best Short Stories of O. Henry
• O. Henry at Project Gutenberg

Frank Herbert
b. 10-8-1920; Tacoma, Washington
d. 2-11-1986; Madison, WI

Science fiction writer Frank Herbert was the author of Dune, the best-selling science fiction series.

George Herbert
b. 4-3-1593; Montgomery, Wales
d. 3-1-1633; Bemerton, Wiltshire, England (tuberculosis)

George Herbert, a metaphysical Welsh poet, orator and Anglican priest, is best remembered for “Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life”, “King of Glory, King of Peace” and “Let all the World in Every Corner Sing”.

George Herbert quotes ~
• “Every mile is two in winter.”
• “One enemy is too much.”
• “Living well is the best revenge.”
• “He that lies with the dogs riseth with fleas.”
• “He that is not handsome at twenty, nor strong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will never bee handsome, strong, rich, or wise.”
• “Whose house is of glasse must not throw stones at another.”
• “Poverty is no sin.”

Deeper Roots Motivational Poster “Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.”

• motivational posters

James Herriot
née James Alfred Wight
b. 10-3-1916; Sunderland, County Durham, England (raised in Glasgow)
d. 2-23-1995; Thirlby, North Yorkshire

James Alfred Wight was a veterinary surgeon and writer best known for his semi-autobiographical stories, often referred to collectively as All Creatures Great and Small, written under his pen name James Herriot.

James Herriot quotes ~
• “If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.”
• “Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
• “I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs... [They] are an obligation put on us, a responsibility we have no right to neglect, nor to violate by cruelty.”

John Hersey
b. 6-17-1915; Tientsin, China
d. 3-24-1993; Key West, FL

John Hersey, the child of missionaries, and who learned to speak Chinese before English, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for in 1945 for A Bell for Adano. Hersey is best remembered as a journalist who used story-telling devices to report events.

FYI - did you know that it was John Hersey's challenge in a Life Magazine article for more interesting reading primers that prompted Theodore Geisel to write The Cat in the Hat.

John Hersey quote ~
• “At, exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.” — Opening sentence, Hiroshima, 1946

Theodor Herzl
b. 5-2-1860; Pest, Hungary
d. 3-24-1993; Edlach, Austria-Hungary (heart failure)

Journalist and playwright Theodor Herzl is the father of modern political Zionism and in effect the State of Israel.

Theodor Herzl quote ~
• “If you will it, it is no dream.”
• “But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home.”