Education and Literature

// Welcome to the Education and Literature Page

  • Robert E. B. Baylor, Founder Baylor University
  • Robert Burns – The National Poet of Scotland
  • Casanova, Italian adventurer, writer, and entertainer
  • Carlo Collodi, author of Pinocchio
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – Writer – Sherlock Holmes
  • W.E.B. DuBois, educator & scholar
  • Edward Gibbon, historian-wrote Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Alex Haley, Author Roots
  • Rudyard Kipling – British Author and Poet – Perseverance Lodge No. 782, Punjab India
  • Norman Vincent Peale – Midwood Lodge No. 1062, Brooklyn, NY. May 31, 1898
  • Alexander Pope
  • Aleksander Pushkin, Russian poet
  • Felix Salten, creator of Bambi
  • Sir Walter Scott
  • Leland Stanford, founded Stanford University and drove the gold spike linking the intercontinental railroad
  • Jonathan Swift – Wrote Gulliver’s Travels
  • Mark Twain (Clemens, Samuel L.) – writer – Polar Star Lodge No. 79, St. Louis Missouri
  • Voltaire – French writer and philosopher
  • Booker T. Washington, educator & author – Grand Master, Massachusetts, PHA
  • Oscar Wilde – Writer