The Ibsen Secret

Jennette Barbour Perry Lee (November 10, 1861 - October 16, 1951) was an American novelist and writer of short stories and sketches. She worked as an instructor at the Grant Collegiate Institute in Chicago, where she taught Philosophy, Rhetoric and Composition. Later, she taught at the Wheaton Academy, Vassar, Western Reserve, and Smith College.

Cities of the Interior

Anaïs Nin (February 21, 1903 - January 14, 1977) was a French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist and writer of short stories and erotica. Nin's most studied works are her diaries or journals, which detail her marriages to Hugh Parker Guiler and Rupert Pole, in addition to her numerous affairs, including those with psychoanalyst Otto Rank and writer Henry Miller.

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy (9 September 1828 - 20 November 1910) was a Russian writer best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1878), which are commonly regarded as among the finest novels ever written. He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays, and his ideas on nonviolent resistance had a profound impact on such pivotal 20th-century figures as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.

The Advocate, Aug. 17, 1999

Barbra Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, and filmmaker. She is one of the few entertainers who have been awarded an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award.

The Ibsen Secret

Jennette Barbour Perry Lee (November 10, 1861 - October 16, 1951) was an American novelist and writer of short stories and sketches. She worked as an instructor at the Grant Collegiate Institute in Chicago, where she taught Philosophy, Rhetoric and Composition. Later, she taught at the Wheaton Academy, Vassar, Western Reserve, and Smith College.

Lacon

Charles Caleb Colton (1777 - 1832) was an English cleric and writer. His books, including collections of epigrammatic aphorisms and short essays on conduct, though now almost forgotten, had a phenomenal popularity in their day.

Cat's Eye

Margaret Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Her works encompass a variety of themes including gender and identity, religion and myth, the power of language, climate change, and "power politics".

"Love"

David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection on the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. His opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage".

A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best work produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language.

"The Sermon on the Mount", Matthew 5:44

Jesus of Nazareth was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader. Christian doctrines include the beliefs that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit, was born of a virgin named Mary, performed miracles, founded the Christian Church, died by crucifixion as a sacrifice to achieve atonement for sin, rose from the dead, and ascended into Heaven from which he will return as the Messiah prophesied in the Old Testament. In contrast, Judaism rejects the belief that Jesus was the awaited Messiah, arguing that he did not fulfill Messianic prophecies, and was neither divine nor resurrected.

The Lathe of Heaven

Ursula K. Le Guin (October 21, 1929 - January 22, 2018) was an American author best known for her works of speculative fiction. Her literary career spanned nearly sixty years, yielding more than twenty novels and over a hundred short stories, in addition to poetry, literary criticism, translations, and children's books.

"The Moor-child", Blue Smoke

Karle Wilson Baker (1878-1960) was an American poet and author. She was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for her last collection of poetry, Dreamers on Horseback, in 1931.

Sonnets from the Portuguese

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (6 March 1806 - 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era. Her work had a major influence on prominent writers of the day, including the American poets Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson.

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best work produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language.

Jacula Prudentum

George Herbert (3 April 1593 - 1 March 1633) was a Welsh-born poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England. His poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognized as one of the foremost British devotional lyricists.

"The End", Abbey Road

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. Rooted in skiffle, beat, and 1950s rock and roll, their sound incorporated elements of classical music and traditional pop in previously unheard-of ways. The band later explored music styles ranging from ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock.

The Book of Love

Rumi (30 September 1207 - 17 December 1273) was a 13th-century Persian poet, Hanafi faqih, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian, and Sufi mystic. His Masnavi, one of the most influential works of Sufism, is commonly called "the Quran in Persian".

The Rainbow

David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection on the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. His opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage".

attributed, How to Achieve Peace of Mind

Maxim Gorky (28 March 1868 - 18 June 1936) was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method, and a political activist. For a significant portion of his life, he was exiled from Russia and later the Soviet Union. In 1932, he returned to the USSR on Joseph Stalin's personal invitation and lived there until his death in June 1936.