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This week's featured author pages

Herodotus (484 - 420) -- Father of history and Greek prose.

Jean Babtiste Racine (1639 - 1699) -- Master of French classical tragedy

Arthur C. Doyle (1859 - 1930) -- novelist chiefly remembered for his amateur detective character, Sherlock Holmes

Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) -- English writer, noted for his fiction set in India and Burma during British rule

Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889) -- British writer who originated the genre of detective fiction