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This week's featured author pages

Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) -- one of the most popular novelists of all time, whose writings combined a range of extraordinary qualities

Edna Ferber (1887 - 1968) -- American writer, remembered for her depictions of early 20th century life

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741 - 1803) -- French novelist, whose masterpiece is Les liaisons dangereuses

H. Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925) -- prolific English novelist and colonial administrator, whose writings are set in exotic regions of the world

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