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

Fannie Hurst
b. 10-19-1885; Hamilton, OH
d. 2-23-1968; Wales

Fannie Hurst, a popular novelist and playwright in her day, is now best remembered as the author of Imiation of Life which has been made into a movie twice (1934 and 1959).

Fannie Hurst quotes ~
• “A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.”
• “Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.”
• “I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.”
• “It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.”

Zora Neale Hurston
b. 1-7-1891; AL
d. 1-28-1960; FL

“Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.” Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston was one of the leading writers of the Harlem Renaissance. ...

• more Zora Neale Hurston

Ulrich von Hutten
b. 4-21-1488; near Schlüchtern, Hesse, Germany
d. 8-29-1523; Ufenau on Lake Zurich

Poet, scholar and Catholic Church critic Ulrich von Hutten lived in a period between the humanist and Lutheran Reformation.

Aldous Leonard Huxley
b. 7-26-1894; Surrey, England
d. 11-22-1963; LA, CA

Aldous Huxley is best known as the author of Brave New World, a novel describing a utopian world where social stability is achieved and maintained by inducing a denial of reality through drug use and biological manipulation.

Accused of being anti-family and anti-Christian, Brave New World is an example of a work of fiction that anticipates developments in reproductive technology, biological engineering, and sleep-learning in the distant night-mare world (dystopian v utopian) where everyone is “happy”.

FYI - The title Brave New World comes from Shakespeare's The Tempest, Act V, Scene I. O, wonder! / How many goodly creatures are there here! / How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, / That has such people in't!

FYI - Aldous Huxley is the grandson of noted biologist and educator Thomas Henry Huxley.

Aldous Huxley quotes ~
• “There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it.” Aldous Huxley, 1961 Speech given to the California Medical School
• “A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.”

• Brave New World Cover print
• Tempest posters

David Henry Hwang
b. 8-11-1957; California

David Henry Hwang is a Tony Award–winning playwright who was appointed to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities by Bill Clinton.

• Yellow Face, David Henry Hwang