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This week's featured author pages

Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912) -- Scottish writer of histories, poetry, and, most famously, fairytales

of Cusa Nicholas (1401 - 1464) -- active in the Church and later a cardinal, Nicholas is remembered in philosophy for his teaching on the unknowability of God

Gene Stratton-Porter (1863 - 1924) -- American feminist and writer

Anaximenes (610 - 550) -- one of the three Milesian pre-Socratic 'natural philosophers'

Nikolai Gogol (1809 - 1852) -- Russian writer of masterful plays, short stories, and novels