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This week's featured author pagesSiegfried L. Sassoon (1886 - 1967) -- remembered best for his war poems, Sasoon was also a successful novelist
Chinua Achebe (1930 - 0) -- highly regarded African writer in English
Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804) -- the most important philosopher of modern times, Kant argued that man is capable of posessing synthetic a priori knowledge, which is independent of experience; in morality, he proposed the famous 'categorical imperative'
John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968) -- American Nobel laureate, Steinbeck's works encompassed his personal knowledge about his native state of California.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) -- American poet and philosopher