The Prophet

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran has ever since its release in 1923 affected people worldwide and is one of the 20th century's most cited books. A classic work filled with wisdom of freedom and beauty, love and marriage, friendship and family, grief and joy. Prophet is a book you can keep coming back to, be inspired by. Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931, was Lebanese-American writer, poet and artist. He was born in Lebanon but emigrated with his family to Boston, USA in 1895. After a brief period of study in Beirut, he settled down in 1912 in New York, where he wrote essays and short stories in both English and Arabic.