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This week's featured author pagesPercy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822) -- major figure in the English Romantic movement
Edward M. Forster (1879 - 1970) -- notable English novelist
Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) -- American poet and journalist, most famous for his controversial but technically brilliant early poetry
Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922) -- French writer of a mammoth multi-volume life's work that explored human sensations and attempted to chart the whole of a life's experience.
Robert L. Stevenson (1850 - 1894) -- author of fiction works that have become legendary in children's literature.