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This week's featured author pagesHarriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896) -- American writer, who wrote an unmatched powerful indictment of slavery, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637) -- Jacobean dramatist, poet, and critic, some of whose plays were acted in by Shakespeare
George Gordon Noel Byron (1788 - 1824) -- one of the most important and notorious poets of the Romantic era, English-born.
Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695) -- French writer, famed for his Fables, a collection of poems
Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933) -- American poet of personal lyrics