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This week's featured author pages

Virgil (70 - 19) -- Roman poet that sang of the founding of Rome and who would go on to exert an incalculable influence on subsequent literature.

Les Murray (1938 - 0) -- Les Murray - Australia's leading living poet

Theodore Dreiser (1871 - 1945) -- American novelist, who was a leading figure in the naturalist movement

Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809) -- a British visitor to America, Paine argued that the state has positive duties to its citizens

Patrick White (1912 - 1990) -- Australia's only Nobel Prize winner for Literature