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This week's featured author pagesAnthony Burgess (1917 - 1993) -- novelist and critic, born in Manchester, whose works address social concerns.
Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925) -- leading poet of the imagist school and a literary critic
Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784) -- man of letters, philosopher and art critic, chief editor of the L'Encyclopedie, one of the principal works of the Age of Enlightenment
Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963) -- famous for novels with strong, sociological theories, British-born.
Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) -- Scottish historian and essayist, who famously argued that history is the biography of great men