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This week's featured author pages

Homer (0 - 0) -- unknown author to whom we attribute two influential epic poems that shaped the development of prose and poetry

Edmund Husserl (1859 - 1938) -- German philosopher; founder of phenomenology

Ovid (43 - 17) -- Roman poet whose often frivolous verse has never ceased to be entertaining and inspiriational.

Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893) -- French writer, whose naturalistic short-stories have been highly influential

Patrick White (1912 - 1990) -- Australia's only Nobel Prize winner for Literature