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This week's featured author pages

Virgil (70 - 19) -- Roman poet that sang of the founding of Rome and who would go on to exert an incalculable influence on subsequent literature.

John Buchan (1875 - 1940) -- Scottish politician and writer

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) -- arguably the most heralded poet and dramatist of all time.

Zane Grey (1875 - 1939) -- American novelist, many of whose works are set in the American West

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592) -- essayist whose works were influential in the development of rationalism