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This week's featured author pages

Bram Stoker (1847 - 1912) -- Irish author of well-known gothic horror fantasy novels

Edgar Allen Poe (1809 - 1849) -- great American poet and writer of prose

Dylan M. Thomas (1914 - 1953) -- controversial Welsh poet, playwright and short-story writer whose work elicited strong emotional responses.

David H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930) -- one of the greatest novelists of the century

Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903) -- evolutionist, an advocater of Social Darwinism, and originator of sociology