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This week's featured author pages

Samuel Clarke (1675 - 1729) -- rationalist philosopher who claimed that moral decisions can be as certain as mathematical ones, and who promoted the work of Isaac Newton

Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) -- novelist whose work foreshadowed many aspects of twentieth century American literature

Ted Hughes (1930 - 1998) -- British author and poet laureate

Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797) -- English author, famous for his letters and Gothic romance

Sun Tzu (500 - 320) -- Sun Tzu is the name given to the authors of the famous treatise The Art of War