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This week's featured author pages

Charles Brockden Brown (1771 - 1810) -- pioneering American gothic novelist

Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695) -- French writer, famed for his Fables, a collection of poems

Xenocrates (396 - 314) -- Greek philosopher who systematised Platonism and defended it against Aristotle

Gilbert Parker (1862 - 1932) -- Canadian-born author and politician

Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) -- one of the greatest of all novelists; Russian author of realistic fiction.