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This week's featured author pages

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

Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797) -- English author, famous for his letters and Gothic romance

Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918) -- great British anti-war poet of the First World War.

Alexander S. Pushkin (1799 - 1837) -- known as the Shakespeare of Russia, he is also the most beloved of her poets

Marsilio Ficino (1433 - 1499) -- Italian, who produced translations of all Plato's works, and wrote influential commentaries on them