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This week's featured author pages

Kazuo Ishiguro (1956 - 0) -- Booker Prize winner for Remains of the Day 1988 (film, 1993)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) -- celebrated Renaissance artist, architect, and scientist

Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) -- one of the most popular novelists of all time, whose writings combined a range of extraordinary qualities

Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875) -- Danish writer, most famous for his fairy stories

Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586) -- English Renaissance writer and gentleman, whose commitment to poetry has been an inspiration to poets