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This week's featured author pages

John Webster (1578 - 1626) -- leading 17th century English tragedian

Richard Harding Davis (1864 - 1916) -- American writer and journalist

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980) -- also a playwright, novelist, and critic, all of Sartre's work is touched by his existential worldview

Jean Babtiste Racine (1639 - 1699) -- Master of French classical tragedy

O Henry (1862 - 1910) -- American short story writer, whose ingenious and often humourous stories about everyday life made him enormously popular in the nineteenth century