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This week's featured author pages

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894) -- physician, who wrote the "Breakfast-Table" series of essays

William Whewell (1794 - 1866) -- Cambridge philosopher of science

Tzu Lao (500 - 500) -- Influential Chinese philosopher who founded Taoism

Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875 - 1935) -- American writer, most famously of short stories

John Buchan (1875 - 1940) -- Scottish politician and writer