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This week's featured author pages

Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637) -- Jacobean dramatist, poet, and critic, some of whose plays were acted in by Shakespeare

Ivan Turgenev (1818 - 1883) -- Russian novelist and playwright; leading stylist in the genre

Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986) -- best known as Jean-Paul Sartre's lover, de Beauvoir was an accomplished novelist, feminist critic, and existentialist philosopher

Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) -- writer who portrayed late nineteenth and early twentieth century American society

Frank Harris (1856 - 1931) -- Irish-born American journalist and writer