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This week's featured author pages

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) -- American writer and humourist, whose adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer won him worldwide acclaim

Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) -- American poet and journalist, most famous for his controversial but technically brilliant early poetry

Thomas S. Eliot (1888 - 1965) -- American-born poet, playwright and critic whose poems established new techniques and whose unique perspective became a foundation of modern literature.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881) -- Russian author of great repute whose ability allowed him to portray complex behaviours with insight and sensitivity.

Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) -- writer who portrayed late nineteenth and early twentieth century American society