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This week's featured author pages

Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823) -- popular English Gothic novelist

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 - 1716) -- prominent rationalist philosopher who based his metaphysics on the existence of simple immaterial substances called monads

John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968) -- American Nobel laureate, Steinbeck's works encompassed his personal knowledge about his native state of California.

Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933) -- American poet of personal lyrics

William Blake (1757 - 1827) -- early visionary poet of the Romantic period