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This week's featured author pages

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881) -- Russian author of great repute whose ability allowed him to portray complex behaviours with insight and sensitivity.

of Cusa Nicholas (1401 - 1464) -- active in the Church and later a cardinal, Nicholas is remembered in philosophy for his teaching on the unknowability of God

Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) -- third president of the United States, and political philosopher who borrowed much from Locke and who argued that successful representative government was possible

Oliver Goldsmith (1774 - 1728) -- Anglo-Irish dramatist, poet, and novelist

John Bunyan (1628 - 1688) -- English Puritan minister and preacher