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This week's featured author pages

Richard Harding Davis (1864 - 1916) -- American writer and journalist

Empedocles (495 - 435) -- Greek philosopher who developed the pluralist tradition by arguing that the world is comprised of four elements

Anaxagoras (500 - 428) -- influential pre-Socratic philosopher

Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983) -- contemporary American dramatist

e.e. cummings (1894 - 1962) -- American poet, who experimented extensively with language and form.