American Writer Tapestries

Ernest Hemingway quote about war: Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

With this image, we celebrate the uniqueness of Chilean poet and writer Roberto Bolaño.

Ernest Hemingway quote about writing: My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Leroy Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, 1935 – May 1, 1998), better known as Eldridge Cleaver, was an American writer, and political activist who became an early leader of the Black Panther Party. His 1968 book Soul On Ice is a collection of essays, praised by The New York Times Book Review at the time of its publication as "brilliant and revealing". Cleaver went on to become a prominent member of the Black Panthers, having the titles Minister of Information and Head of the International Section of the Panthers while a fugitive from the United States criminal justice system in Cuba and Algeria. As editor of the official Panther's newspaper, Cleaver's influence on the direction of the Party was rivaled only by founders Huey P. Newton and Bo...

Faulkner's style of narration employs the "stream of consciousness". The great writer of the American South received Nobel Prize in literature in 1949.

E. E. Cummings: It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

With this image, we celebrate Dashiell Hammett, the father of a hard-boiled detective novel, the creator of Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon and and indirectly of the film-noir genre.

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With this image, we celebrate American writer Ralph Ellison, the author of Invisible Man.

Leroy Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, 1935 – May 1, 1998), better known as Eldridge Cleaver, was an American writer, and political activist who became an early leader of the Black Panther Party. His 1968 book Soul On Ice is a collection of essays, praised by The New York Times Book Review at the time of its publication as "brilliant and revealing". Cleaver went on to become a prominent member of the Black Panthers, having the titles Minister of Information and Head of the International Section of the Panthers while a fugitive from the United States criminal justice system in Cuba and Algeria. As editor of the official Panther's newspaper, Cleaver's influence on the direction of the Party was rivaled only by founders Huey P. Newton and Bo...

Leroy Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, 1935 – May 1, 1998), better known as Eldridge Cleaver, was an American writer, and political activist who became an early leader of the Black Panther Party. His 1968 book Soul On Ice is a collection of essays, praised by The New York Times Book Review at the time of its publication as "brilliant and revealing". Cleaver went on to become a prominent member of the Black Panthers, having the titles Minister of Information and Head of the International Section of the Panthers while a fugitive from the United States criminal justice system in Cuba and Algeria. As editor of the official Panther's newspaper, Cleaver's influence on the direction of the Party was rivaled only by founders Huey P. Newton and Bo...

Edith Wharton portrait and quote:'If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.'

Mark Twain quote: I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Jack London was a hell of a writer; his style crisp, his vision clear. He paved the way for no-BS American writers like Ernest Hemingway and even Bukowski. His novels The Call of the Wild and White Fang are world heritage.

Walt Whitman portrait and quote: I accept reality and dare not question it

Helen Keller portrait and quote: What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Dashiell Hammett is the father of a hard-boiled detective novel and an American classic.

Philip Roth was a famous American novelist and short story writer. Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel American Pastoral.

Sylvia Plath portrait and quote: I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909 – June 12, 1972) was a Jewish American community organizer and writer. He is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing. He is often noted for his book Rules for Radicals. In the course of nearly four decades of political organizing, Alinsky received much criticism, but also gained praise from many public figures. His organizing skills were focused on improving the living conditions of poor communities across North America. In the 1950s, he began turning his attention to improving conditions in the African-American ghettos, beginning with Chicago's and later traveling to other ghettos in California, Michigan, New York City, and a dozen other "trouble spots". His ideas ...

Alien and Mark Twain quote: Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

E. E. Cummings quote:To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

E. E. Cummings quote: Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Welsh poet Dylan Marlais Thomas (1914 –1953) is acknowledged as one of the most influential English writers of modern time. Besides poetry, his scripts for film and radio and public readings, particularly in America, won him great acclaim. His best-known works include the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood and the celebrated villanelle for his dying father Do not go gentle into that good night. This is a recreated portrait of Dylan based on his press photographs.

Mark Twain quote: Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c.February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings. He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Even many Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.

With this image, we celebrate American writer Ralph Ellison, the author of Invisible Man.

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c.February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings. He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Even many Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.

Ginsberg, Burroughs, Kerouac - the Beat Generation!

Henry James, OM (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American-born British writer. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James. He is best known for a number of novels showing Americans encountering Europe and Europeans. His method of writing from a character's point of view allowed him to explore issues related to consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to impressionist painting. His imaginative use of point of view, interior monologue and unreliable narrators brought a new depth to narrative fiction. James contributed significantly to lite...

A quote by M. Twain in the collections of Authors and Written Word at my store in Redbubble.

A quote by W. Irving in the collections of Authors and Written Word at my store in Redbubble.

Mark Twain was famous not only for his books but also for his quick and razor-sharp wit. Here is his portrait with one of his funny conclusions!

Mark Twain was famous not only for his books but also for his quick and razor-sharp wit. Here is his portrait with one of his funny conclusions!

With this image, we celebrate Dashiell Hammett, the father of a hard-boiled detective novel.

F. Scott Fitzgerald portrait with a quote from The Great Gatsby : So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.