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This week's featured author pagesPauline Johnson (1861 - 1913) -- popular turn-of-the-century Canadian novelist and entertainer
Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695) -- French writer, famed for his Fables, a collection of poems
Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993) -- novelist and critic, born in Manchester, whose works address social concerns.
Democritus (460 - 370) -- Greek philosopher, who proposed, with Leucippus, the theory of atomism
W.W. Jacobs (1863 - 1943) -- British writer of stories set at sea