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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

Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) -- author of novels, short stories and poetry, portraying the rural poor as victims of fate.

Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893) -- French writer, whose naturalistic short-stories have been highly influential

Harper Lee (1926 - 0) -- contemporary award-winning American writer

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) -- American writer and humourist, whose adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer won him worldwide acclaim