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This week's featured author pages

Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637) -- Jacobean dramatist, poet, and critic, some of whose plays were acted in by Shakespeare

Bret Harte (1836 - 1902) -- writer, whose most famous novels were set in the American West

Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762 - 1814) -- the first post-Kantian German idealist

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

James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937) -- Scottish dramatist and novelist whose work is characterised by his unique view of life.