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This week's featured author pages

Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809) -- a British visitor to America, Paine argued that the state has positive duties to its citizens

Jerome D. Salinger (1919 - 0) -- 20th century American novelist

Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823) -- popular English Gothic novelist

Plotinus (204 - 270) -- philosopher whose writings mark the beginning of Neoplatonism

Ouida (1839 - 1908) -- English author, pseudonym of Marie Louise de la Ramee