Authors, Poets & Novelists Posters & Prints, “Wo...-Wr...-”
for literature, language arts and social studies classrooms and home schoolers.

P. G. Wodehouse
b. 10-15-1881; Guildford, Surrey, England
d. 2-14-1975; Southampton, New York

P. G. Wodehouse's most famous work, “Very Good, Jeeves”, is narration by the wealthy and scatterbrained Bertie Wooster of the improbable and unfortunate situations in which he and his friends find themselves, and the manner in which his ingenious valet Jeeves is always able to extricate them.

P. G. Wodehouse quotes ~
• “Routine is the death of heroism.” ~ The Man Upstairs
• “Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.” ~ The Adventures of Sally

• P.G. Wodehouse : Five Complete Novels (The Return of Jeeves, Bertie Wooster Sees It Through, Spring Fever, The Butler Did It, The Old Reliable)

Thomas Wolfe
b. 10-3-1900; North Carolina
d. 9-15-1938 (miliary tuberculosis of the brain)

Author Thomas Wolfe is considered one of the most important writers in modern American literature and a master of autobiographical fiction.

Thomas Wolfe quotes ~
• “Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.”
• “You can't go home again.”
• “This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.”

• Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe

Tom Wolfe
b. 3-2-1931; Richmond, VA

Author Tom Wolfe is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s where literary techniques used in reporting, “modern muckraking”, and advocacy through artistic non-fiction and exploiting new media outlets.

Wolfe is also credited with introducing “statusphere,” “the right stuff,” “radical chic,” and “the Me Decade”.

Tom Wolfe quotes ~
• “Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.”
• “It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.”
• “On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.”

• The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe

The Mis-Education of the Negro, Carter G. Woodson (not commerically available poster)

Carter Godwin Woodson
b. 12-19-1875; New Canton, VA
d. 4-3-1950; Washington, DC

Dr. Carter G. Woodson, historian, educator, and the founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, was the author of more than 16 books. Known as the Father of Black History, Woodson was a moving force of what would become Black History Month.

Virginia Woolf, neé Stephen
b. 1-25-1882; London, England
d. 3-28-1941; suicide, bipolar disorder

Virgina Woolf is considered one of the foremost authors on the 20th century. Her family was well connected in the literary culture; among visitors to her home when she was a child included Henry James and George Eliot.

Woolf was a founder of the Bloomsbury Group, her great aunt was photographer Julia Cameron, her sister Vanessa Bell became a notable painter and designed her book covers, she had a relationship with Vita Sackville-West; her godfather was American poet and diplomat James Russell Lowell.

Virginia Woolf quotes ~
• “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
• “As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”
• “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
• “I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.”
• “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
• “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”

• The Virginia Woolf Reader
• Women Writers posters
• Mrs. Dalloway book cover poster

William Wordsworth
b. 4-7-1770; Wordsworth House, Cockermouth, England
d. 4-23-1850; Cumberland (pleurisy)

Poet William Wordsworth was England's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850. He, along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, were known as the Lake Poets, and began the Romantic literature movement in England.

I Wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze....

Wordsworth quotes
• “Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge.”
• “All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”

• William Wordsworth - The Major Works : including The Prelude

FYI - did you know Wordsworth wrote a travel book about the Lake District as a “sort of national property in which every man has a right and interest who has an eye to perceive and a heart to enjoy.”?

Richard Wright
b. 9-4-1908; near Natchez, MS
d. 11-28-1960

"I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all, to keep alive in our hearts a sense of the inexpressibly human.” American Hunger

Richard Wright's Native Son is a protest novel and one of the earliest and most successful attempts to explain the racial divide and social conditions imposed on African-Americans by white society in the United States.

• more Richard Wright posters
• more Voices of Diversity posters