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This week's featured author pages

John Dryden (1631 - 1700) -- 17th-century British playwright, poet and translator, whose diverse works were topical and influential.

Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925) -- leading poet of the imagist school and a literary critic

Ivan Turgenev (1818 - 1883) -- Russian novelist and playwright; leading stylist in the genre

James Joyce (1882 - 1941) -- the most influential novelist of the 20th century

Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984) -- French poststructuralist philosopher, who sought to reveal power relationships in society by so-called 'archaeologies' of the past