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This week's featured author pagesAnatole France (1844 - 1924) -- pseudonym of Jacques Anatole François Thibault; novelist, Nobel laureate
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963) -- Controversial American poet famous for poems depicting nature and his use of colloquial American speech.
Patrick White (1912 - 1990) -- Australia's only Nobel Prize winner for Literature
George Orwell (1903 - 1950) -- an advocate of democratic socialism, Orwell's social allegories are some of the most powerful critiques of totalitarian societies
Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850) -- influential author of an immense series of novels which attempted to give a realistic representation of French society in the 18th century