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This week's featured author pages

Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993) -- novelist and critic, born in Manchester, whose works address social concerns.

Henry Lawson (1867 - 1922) -- influential poet who captured the Australian way of life

Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600 - 1681) -- poet and dramatist of the golden age of Spanish literature

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950) -- American poet, promoter of traditional verse

Lucretius (95 - 52) -- Roman poet who attempted to popularise Epicurean philosophy