JUBRAN KAHLIL GIBRAN

(1882-1931)

Labanese – US Arabic novelist, essayist, poet and painter.  Gibran studied art with the sculptor Auguste Rodin in Paris and Arabic literature in Beirut before settling in New York City in 1912.  A romantic mystic and visionary, he preached love, beauty, freedom and redemption in his works.

THE PROPHET was written in 1923 and is considered as one of his finest works.  It is a mystical collection of prose poems.  It is a perennial bestseller and it has been translated into more than twenty languages.