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This week's featured author pages

Moses Maimonides (1135 - 1204) -- Jewish philosopher and jurist

George Berkeley (1685 - 1753) -- English philosopher who argued against Lockean scepticism and posited an alternative based, famously, on common sense

Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) -- author of novels, short stories and poetry, portraying the rural poor as victims of fate.

Desiderius Erasmus (1466 - 1536) -- leading figure in the Renaissance humanism movement

William Faulkner (1897 - 1962) -- Nobel Laureate and a storyteller of startling originality and power.