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This week's featured author pagesAlexander S. Pushkin (1799 - 1837) -- known as the Shakespeare of Russia, he is also the most beloved of her poets
Sappho (630 - 612) -- One of the great Greek lyrists and few known female poets of the ancient world.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896) -- American writer, who wrote an unmatched powerful indictment of slavery, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731) -- prolific English novelist and journalist
John Roderigo Dos Passos (1896 - 1970) -- American post-War writer