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This week's featured author pagesSophocles (496 - 406) -- most successful Greek tragedian, producing what were considered perfect tragedies as well as reforming the performance of Greek tragedy.
William B. Yeats (1865 - 1939) -- Irish poet, who wrote pieces of simple style related to pagan mythology. Chief proponent of the Irish Renaissance movement.
Andrea Cesalpino (1519 - 1603) -- Italian physician and pioneering botanist
John Knowles (1926 - 0) -- American novelist and short-story writer
Francis Hodgson Burnett (1848 - 1924) -- American novelist, best known for her children's books