Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist, best known for The Prophet, a series of poetic pieces on love, work, joy, sorrow and freedom first published in the United States in 1923. He also wrote the fiction The Broken Wings and showed his drawings in Boston and New York galleries. Born in Bsharri in 1883, he died in 1931 at the age of 48.