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This week's featured author pages

Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) -- English politician, Irish born, whose writings on politics may have influenced the growth of conservatism

Melville Davisson Post (1869 - 1930) -- writer of detective stories

Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965) -- English writer of characteristically stylistic novels and short stories

R.D. Blackmore (1825 - 1900) -- Nineteenth century English novelist

Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) -- American poet and journalist, most famous for his controversial but technically brilliant early poetry