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This week's featured author pages

Galilei Galileo (1564 - 1642) -- astronomer, physicist, who pioneered the mathematical approach to physics and promoted independent scientific inquiry

Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875 - 1935) -- American writer, most famously of short stories

John Milton (1608 - 1674) -- one of the greatest poets in English

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

Ouida (1839 - 1908) -- English author, pseudonym of Marie Louise de la Ramee