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This week's featured author pages

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) -- playwright, poet, novelist and critic born in Ireland, famous for his wit.

Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) -- one of the most popular novelists of all time, whose writings combined a range of extraordinary qualities

J.M. Synge (1871 - 1909) -- Irish poet and dramatist, who wrote about the bleak lives of many of the Irish people

Jerome D. Salinger (1919 - 0) -- 20th century American novelist

Wilhelm Dilthey (1833 - 1911) -- German philosopher, whose contributions include the development of hermeneutics and broadening the application of Kant's philosophy