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This week's featured author pages

Marsilio Ficino (1433 - 1499) -- Italian, who produced translations of all Plato's works, and wrote influential commentaries on them

Gilbert Parker (1862 - 1932) -- Canadian-born author and politician

Edward M. Forster (1879 - 1970) -- notable English novelist

Jack London (1876 - 1916) -- American author of realistic fiction

Edith Nesbit (1858 - 1924) -- British writer, primarily of children's books