Faces of Our Creative Forebears

Emily Dickinson

The eccentric poet heroine who repeatedly wrote beautifully about the experience of loneliness, suffering, and many other subjects.

Sigrid Undset

The great Catholic novelist best known for bringing the medieval period to life in colour through her incredible trilogy, Kristin Lavransdatter.

William Butler Yeats

The well-loved Irish poet who wrote often of love, of nature, of the pining for peace and beauty.

L. M. Montgomery

An author whose personal torments are mostly eclipsed by the childlike wonder brought to the world through the charming redhead Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables.

Walt Whitman

Often thought of as a strange and reclusive man and popularly known for his passionate engagement with existentialism, his poetry whimsically captured much of nature and the human experience, both intimate and common.

Graham Greene

With works marked heavily by tortured questions of the spiritual, of sin, and of grace, Greene's contribution to American literature in the 20th century is immeasurable.

Evelyn Waugh

The somewhat proudly ornery and brilliant British author best known for his cult masterpiece centering around a dying nobility, "Brideshead Revisited."

Laura Ingalls Wilder

The woman who singularly brought the challenges and joys of American frontier life to generations of readers through the eyes of a child.

William Shakespeare

With unmatched insight into human nature, Shakespeare remains known as the foremost master of the English language centuries down.

Georges Bernanos

The French writer whose delicate and insightful handling of religious and psychological questions remains prescient until today.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Ever in tension with the great questions of existence and meaning, this Russian giant of a novelist contributed profoundly to the world's literary tradition.

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