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This week's featured author pagesWilliam Dean Howells (1837 - 1920) -- leading nineteenth century American novelist and critic, who promoted realism
William Hamilton (1788 - 1856) -- nineteenth century philosopher of logic and metaphysics
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810 - 1865) -- skillful English novelist, a contemporary and friend of Dickens and Charlotte Brontë
Edgar Lee Masters (1868 - 1950) -- Political activist, Lawyer, and Poet.
Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956) -- German poet and playwright whose theories of a relationship of alienation between audience and theatre had a marked inpact on the development of drama.