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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

Seamus J. Heaney (1939 - 0) -- Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner

Ted Hughes (1930 - 1998) -- British author and poet laureate

Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875 - 1935) -- American writer, most famously of short stories

Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) -- writer who portrayed late nineteenth and early twentieth century American society