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This week's featured author pages

Ralph Connor (1860 - 1937) -- Canadian novelist, whose writing represents the views of middle-class Canadians in the early 20th century

F. Marion Crawford (1854 - 1909) -- American writer, whose novels drew on his experience in Italy

Giambattista Vico (1668 - 1744) -- influential Italian philosopher, who argued that we can have certain knowledge only about things which we have created

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) -- British mathematician and logician, who also won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and was a leading civil-rights activist

Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823 - 1901) -- English novelist