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This week's featured author pages

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 - 1797) -- influential early feminist, who argued for educational and social equality

Les Murray (1938 - 0) -- Les Murray - Australia's leading living poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894) -- physician, who wrote the "Breakfast-Table" series of essays

Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900) -- American novelist, famous for his masterpiece The Red Badge of Courage

Nikolai Gogol (1809 - 1852) -- Russian writer of masterful plays, short stories, and novels