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This week's featured author pages

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864) -- American novelist whose works were an exploration of human sin, punishment and guilt.

Chinua Achebe (1930 - 0) -- highly regarded African writer in English

Franz Brentano (1838 - 1917) -- German philosopher who, building on Aristotle and from an empirical standpoint, developed a philosophy which was a forerunner to phenomenology

Howard Pyle (1853 - 1911) -- American writer and illustrator, famous for his contributions to Harper's magazine

Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) -- Scottish historian and essayist, who famously argued that history is the biography of great men