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This week's featured author pages

Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885) -- one of the greatest French poet and most important of the French Romantic movement.

Ovid (43 - 17) -- Roman poet whose often frivolous verse has never ceased to be entertaining and inspiriational.

Zane Grey (1875 - 1939) -- American novelist, many of whose works are set in the American West

Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650) -- the founder of modern Western philosophy

David H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930) -- one of the greatest novelists of the century