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This week's featured author pages

Lousia May Alcott (1832 - 1888) -- well known American author of children's books

Robert Frost (1874 - 1963) -- Controversial American poet famous for poems depicting nature and his use of colloquial American speech.

John Dryden (1631 - 1700) -- 17th-century British playwright, poet and translator, whose diverse works were topical and influential.

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) -- British mathematician and logician, who also won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and was a leading civil-rights activist

Edmund Husserl (1859 - 1938) -- German philosopher; founder of phenomenology