Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850 – October 30, 1919) was an American author and poet. Her works include the collection Poems of Passion and the poem "Solitude", which contains the lines "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone." Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year before her death.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
November 5, 1850
October 30, 1919 (aged 68)
Author, poet
In popular culture[edit]
The titles for the ten episodes of the final, fifth season of the science fiction television series Orphan Black come from Wilcox's poem, "Protest".[16]
The lines "Laugh and the world laughs with you / Weep, and you weep alone" from Wilcox's poem "Solitude" feature several times in the 2003 Korean thriller film Oldboy.
