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This week's featured author pages

P.G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975) -- Anglo-American author, remembered best for his humourous fictional characters such as Bertie Wooster and his butler, Jeeves

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

Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963) -- American poet and novelist

Joseph A. Altsheler (1862 - 1919) -- American writer whose works have been very popular with youth

John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873) -- great British philosopher, who embraced elements from both the enlightenment and from romanticism, and who wrote an enduring defence of political liberalism