He is the third-most-widely read poet in history, after Shakespeare and Lao-tzu. He was a New Yorker and an Arab American. His writing has influenced song lyrics, novels and speeches, and inspired ...

Kahlil Gibran in 1896, aged 14. The photograph was taken by F Holland Day who funded and guided the education of Gibran, encouraging him to study art and poetry (Public domain) He speaks to the people ...

The Princeton University Library is now the holder of working manuscripts and notebooks for four well-known Kahlil Gibran books, including the Lebanese-American’s best-selling “The Prophet.” The ...

The actress is one of the producers and voices for the film adaptation of the classic book that she first saw as a young girl on her grandfather's nightstand. “The Prophet” is a book of 26 poems ...

Significant portions of the working manuscripts and notebooks of four well-known books, including "The Prophet," by Kahlil Gibran have been donated to the Princeton University Library. The library's ...

Salma Hayek talks about rediscovering The Prophet and working with director Roger Allers and animator Bill Plympton to create a cinematic anthology. Salma Hayek tends to wax rhapsodic once she gets ...

One of the highlights of the Cannes Film Festival for me this summer was a presentation of selected clips from “Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet,” an ambitious animated film that adapts one of the most ...

My first copy of “The Prophet” by Kahlil Gibran, was a gift from my friend Amy who was a VISTA (Volunteer in Service to America) volunteer in Grand Island in the late 1960s. Since that time I have ...

A 'toon take on the third-best-selling poet of all time By THR Staff One of the best-selling books of poetry ever, The Prophet has been in print continuously since its 1923 publication, dispensing ...

In 1916, Alfred A. Knopf, then 23 and a newcomer to the book-publishing business, was introduced to a Lebanese artist-poet in a Greenwich Village cafe. Knopf had never heard of Kahlil Gibran, but his ...