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This week's featured author pages

Patrick White (1912 - 1990) -- Australia's only Nobel Prize winner for Literature

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 - 1797) -- influential early feminist, who argued for educational and social equality

Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) -- nineteenth century British novelist

Henry James (1843 - 1916) -- American author of psychological novels

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