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This week's featured author pages

Jean Babtiste Poquelin Moliere (1622 - 1673) -- One of the greatest of all writers of French comedy - master of French classic comedy

Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1892) -- Victorian poet

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

Zeno of Citium (334 - 262) -- founder of the Hellenistic school of Stoic philosophy

Arthur C. Doyle (1859 - 1930) -- novelist chiefly remembered for his amateur detective character, Sherlock Holmes