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This week's featured author pages

Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) -- writer who is remembered in philosophy for his rejection of sceptical metaphysics

John Kendrick Bangs (1862 - 1922) -- American humourist and poet

Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) -- Kafka's hugely influential novels and short stories prefigured existentialism and set the tone for much 20th century fiction

Melissus (440 - 440) -- philosopher of the Eleatic school

Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321) -- Italian poet, philosopher whose epic poem The Divine Comedy is the greatest and most influential of medieval poetry.