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This week's featured author pages

Maxim Gorky (1868 - 1936) -- Russian prose writer and playwright, of the Soviet era

Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599) -- English poet of the sixteenth century

Marcus T. Cicero (106 - 143) -- Roman statesman whose literary and philosophical writings have been profoundly influential

William Makepiece Thackeray (1811 - 1863) -- nineteenth century British novelist

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592) -- essayist whose works were influential in the development of rationalism