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This week's featured author pages

Henry D. Thoreau (1817 - 1862) -- American writer and philosopher, remembered for his autobiographic Walden, and his naturalist style

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

Thomas S. Eliot (1888 - 1965) -- American-born poet, playwright and critic whose poems established new techniques and whose unique perspective became a foundation of modern literature.

Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) -- novelist and short story writer, one of the first of the Modernist movement; Polish-born

Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809) -- a British visitor to America, Paine argued that the state has positive duties to its citizens