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This week's featured author pages

Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977) -- Russian-American author, translator, lepidopterist whose linguistic faculty has been compared to that of James Joyce

Carlo Collodi (1826 - 1890) -- Italian author and the creator of the character Pinocchio

Carson McCullers (1917 - 1967) -- American novelist whose stories tell of the efforts of sad, often handicapped characters to gain compassion

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741 - 1803) -- French novelist, whose masterpiece is Les liaisons dangereuses

Karl Heinrich Marx (1818 - 1883) -- a philosopher and social theorist, Marx saw the society's future in the realisation of communism