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This week's featured author pages

Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586) -- English Renaissance writer and gentleman, whose commitment to poetry has been an inspiration to poets

Moses Mendelssohn (1729 - 1786) -- Jewish philosopher, who adopted much of Leibniz's metaphysics and who was a leading figure in promoting the project of the Enlightenment

Charles Brockden Brown (1771 - 1810) -- pioneering American gothic novelist

Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889) -- British writer who originated the genre of detective fiction

Bram Stoker (1847 - 1912) -- Irish author of well-known gothic horror fantasy novels