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This week's featured author pages

Thomas Nelson Page (1853 - 1922) -- American author who was also a diplomat

Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912) -- Scottish writer of histories, poetry, and, most famously, fairytales

Bernard Bolzano (1781 - 1848) -- a critic of scepticism and subjectivism, who followed Leibniz's rationalism and was also influential as a mathematician

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839 - 1914) -- American philosopher and founder of pragmatism

Friedrich Engels (1820 - 1895) -- a member of the working-class movement, Engels wrote on philosophy, politics, and history, often in collaboration with Karl Marx