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

Henryk Adam Aleksandr Pius Sienkiewicz,
Pseudonym: Litwos
b. 5-5-1846; Wola Okrzejska, Poland
d. 11-15-1916; Switzerland

Henryk Adam Aleksandr Pius Sienkiewicz, aka Litwos, received the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature for his “outstanding merits as an epic writer.”

Sienkiewicz traveled to California in 1876 with the family of Helena Modjeska, a talented and popular Polish actress.

Litwos quotes ~
• “On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.”
• “The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.”

Lydia Sigourney
née Huntley
b. 9-1-1791; Norwich, CT
d. 6-10-1865

Poet Lydia Sigourney, known as the “Sweet Singer of Hartford”, was such a popular figure in the mid 19th century that lyceum type study groups were formed named after her - such as the the Sigournean Club of Olathe, KS.

Lydia Sigourney quotes ~
• “In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.”
• “The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.”

Frans Eemil Sillanpää
b. 9-16-1888; Finland
d. 6-3-1964

Frans Eemil Sillanpää was awarded the 1939 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his deep understanding of his country's peasantry and the exquisite art with which he has portrayed their way of life and their relationship with Nature.”

Neil Simon
b. 7-4-1927; The Bronx

Playwright Neil Simon has had numerous Broadway successes beginning with Come Blow Your Horn (1961), winning three Tony Awards and the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.