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

Muriel Spark
née Muriel Sarah Camberg
b. 2-1-1918; Edinburgh, Scotland
d. 4-13-2006; Italy

Murial Spark's novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, has had several dramatic adaptations: a stage play in 1968, a film starring Maggie Smith in 1969, and a TV serial in 1978.

Herbert Spencer
b. 4-27-1820; Derby, England
d. 12-8-1903; Brighton

Philosopher and anthropologist Herbert Spencer, a ‘polymath’, was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature before his death.

Spencer's best known theory was Social Darwinism, or “the survival of the fittest”; he was also the inventor of the paper clip as well as running a school founded on the progressive teaching methods of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi.

• Herbert Spencer at Amazon

Herbert Spencer quotes ~
• “Science is organized knowledge.”

Edmund Spenser
b. c. 1552; London, England
d. 1-13-1599; London

Edmund Spenser, an English Poet Laureate, is best known for his epic poem, The Faerie Queene, celebrating Elizabeth I, and his desire to obliterate Irish culture. Spenser was friends with poet Gabriel Harvey.

Edmund Spenser quotes ~
• “It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.”
• “And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.”
• “The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.”
• “Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.”

• more Edmund Spenser's Poetry

Joel Elias Spingarn
b. 5-17-1875; New York City, NY
d. 7-26-1939

Professor of comparative literature at Columbia University from 1899 to 1911, and one of the founders of Harcourt, Brace and Company, Joel Elias Spingarn is best remembered today as a Progressive politically and a civil rights activist.

Spingarn was one of the first Jewish leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and is the namesake of the Spingarn Medal.

Arthur Spingarn, brother of Joel, was also active in NAACP.