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This week's featured author pages

Sappho (630 - 612) -- One of the great Greek lyrists and few known female poets of the ancient world.

Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973) -- first American Nobel Prizewinner whose writings reflected the 40 years she spent in China.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762 - 1814) -- the first post-Kantian German idealist

Jules Verne (1828 - 1905) -- influential French author whose novels laid the foundation for science fiction.

William Blake (1757 - 1827) -- early visionary poet of the Romantic period