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This week's featured author pages

Ted Hughes (1930 - 1998) -- British author and poet laureate

William James (1842 - 1910) -- nineteenth century American philosopher and psychologist, the son of Henry James

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

Walter Pater (1839 - 1894) -- British critic and essayist, who influenced Wilde and the Aesthetic movement generally

Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880) -- author of the early 19th century whose perfection of a naturalistic and precisionary style has made him legendary.