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This week's featured author pages

Ã?mile Zola (1840 - 1902) -- leading figure in the French school of naturalism

P.G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975) -- Anglo-American author, remembered best for his humourous fictional characters such as Bertie Wooster and his butler, Jeeves

Edward M. Forster (1879 - 1970) -- notable English novelist

Friedrich Engels (1820 - 1895) -- a member of the working-class movement, Engels wrote on philosophy, politics, and history, often in collaboration with Karl Marx

Melville Davisson Post (1869 - 1930) -- writer of detective stories