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This week's featured author pages

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

Giordano Bruno (1548 - 1600) -- enigmatic Italian philosopher who was burned at the stake by the Inquisition

George Gordon Noel Byron (1788 - 1824) -- one of the most important and notorious poets of the Romantic era, English-born.

Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn (1918 - 0) -- a courageous Russian political commentator during the second world war.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864) -- American novelist whose works were an exploration of human sin, punishment and guilt.