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This week's featured author pages

Frank Harris (1856 - 1931) -- Irish-born American journalist and writer

Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947) -- British mathematician and philosopher, who collaborated on his master work, Principia Mathematica, with his former student Bertrand Russell

Ivan Turgenev (1818 - 1883) -- Russian novelist and playwright; leading stylist in the genre

Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662) -- prominent as a physicist and mathematician, Pascal is remembered in philosophy for his writings on human nature and theology

Seneca (4 - 65) -- Roman statesman, tragic poet, and Stoic philosopher; one of the leading writers in the Silver Age of Latin literature