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This week's featured author pages

Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) -- English politician, Irish born, whose writings on politics may have influenced the growth of conservatism

Nicolas Malebranche (1638 - 1715) -- French philosopher who developed the theory of occasionalism in response to the Cartesian mind-body problem

Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933) -- American poet of personal lyrics

Willa Sibert Cather (1876 - 1947) -- novelist, who memorably portrayed the life of American settlers

Homer (0 - 0) -- unknown author to whom we attribute two influential epic poems that shaped the development of prose and poetry