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This week's featured author pagesLousia May Alcott (1832 - 1888) -- well known American author of children's books
Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321) -- Italian poet, philosopher whose epic poem The Divine Comedy is the greatest and most influential of medieval poetry.
Heraclitus (500 - 500) -- pre-Socratic philosopher, famous for his obscure writing style
of Autrecourt Nicholas (1300 - 1300) -- a teacher in Paris, Nicholas' lectures anticipate some aspects of Hume's philosophy
Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972) -- influential 20th century American poet and critic