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This week's featured author pagesJohn Webster (1578 - 1626) -- leading 17th century English tragedian
Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922) -- French writer of a mammoth multi-volume life's work that explored human sensations and attempted to chart the whole of a life's experience.
Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986) -- best known as Jean-Paul Sartre's lover, de Beauvoir was an accomplished novelist, feminist critic, and existentialist philosopher
Sir Thomas More (1477 - 1535) -- English statesman and writer
Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965) -- English writer of characteristically stylistic novels and short stories