Conversion to WordPress to power entire website

I decided to go through with it. I’m not going to spend a lot of time right now re-learning html and perl, let alone learning python, ruby, or php. My website will basically be a text-oriented set of writings, including some pages which will display samples of my unpublished books. So now I just want to pretty up the site by using WordPress plugins or maybe selecting a different theme. And I want to add pages discussing my published book, “To See a World in a Grain of Sand” (published by Wipf & Stock and also discussing my unpublished books and articles. I’ll likely put up some samples, including some articles in their entirety.