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

Thomas Wentworth Higginson
b. 12-22-1823; Cambridge, MA
d. 5-9-1911; Cambridge

Author, minister, and Civil War soldier, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, was also a supporter of abolitionist John Brown and the literary mentor of Emily Dickinson.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson quotes ~
• “Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.”
• “When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.”
• “Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.”
• “The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.”

Oscar Hijuelos
b. 8-24-1951; New York City, NY

Oscar Hijuelos is the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, 1990.

“Though he first sat down before the piano to play that piece, at eight-thiry in the eveining, after the moon had risen over the east and the stars had begun their orbits across the sky, he could not have imagined that this little piece of music would not only outlast him, but that it would seep through time, like a ghost, and reach inmunnerable hearts and souls.” A Single... Melody (from when the world was good)

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James Hilton
b. 9-12-1900; Leigh, Lancashire, England
d. 12-20-1954; Long Beach, CA

James Hilton was the author of several best-sellering novels including Lost Horizon (the mythical Shangri-La) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips, about an English schoolmaster.

DYK? Noted African American composer William Grant Still was the arranger of music for the film adaptation of Lost Horizon.

Chester Himes
b. 7-29-1909; Jefferson City, Missouri
d. 11-12-1984; Moraira, Spain

Chester Himes is best remembered as a writer of “hardboiled” crime and detective fiction.

He left Hollywood screen writng (was fired by racist Jack Warner) and moved to France where he was awarded the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in 1958.

• Chester Himes books

S. E. Hinton
b. 7-22-1948; Tulsa, OK

Susan Eloise Hinton is best known for her young adult novels such as The Outsiders which she began writing as a teenager. it was published in 1967 and sold more than 14 million copies.

S. E. Hinton quotes ~
• “I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.”
• “Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.”
• “I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.”

Christopher Hitchens
b. 4-13-1949; Portsmouth, England
d. 12-15-2011; Houston, TX (esophageal cancer)

Author, columnist, editor, and book critic Christopher Hitchens has written regularly for numerous publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, Granta, and Harper's. His most recent books are Blood, Class, and Empire and A Long Short War. He was writing a book on the subject of the Ten Commandments at the time of his death.

Christopher Hitchins quote ~
• “Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.”
• “Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.” ~ see on Voices of Reason poster