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This week's featured author pagesAndrew Lang (1844 - 1912) -- Scottish writer of histories, poetry, and, most famously, fairytales
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) -- American novelist who captured the moral decadance of the 1930 post-war Jazz Age.
Leucippus (400 - 400) -- less famous than his successor, Democritus, Leucippus is credited with being the co-founder of atomism
Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982) -- Russian-born American novelist, who developed in her fiction a philosophy based on objectivism, which promoted rational self-interest, unregulated capitalism, and absolute individualism
Melchior Cano (1509 - 1560) -- Spanish theologian