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This week's featured author pages
Porphyry (232 - 305) -- Greek philosopher, student of Plotinus and Neoplatonism
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) -- British mathematician and logician, who also won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and was a leading civil-rights activist
Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach (1723 - 1789) -- a determinist and atheistic materialist, Holbach comprehensively argued for his philosophical position in his Système de la nature
Mary Shelley (1797 - 1851) -- novelist of the Romantic period, best remembered for her novel Frankenstein
Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn (1918 - 0) -- a courageous Russian political commentator during the second world war.
