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This week's featured author pages

Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) -- third president of the United States, and political philosopher who borrowed much from Locke and who argued that successful representative government was possible

Richard Harding Davis (1864 - 1916) -- American writer and journalist

Gene Stratton-Porter (1863 - 1924) -- American feminist and writer

Ralph Connor (1860 - 1937) -- Canadian novelist, whose writing represents the views of middle-class Canadians in the early 20th century

Bret Harte (1836 - 1902) -- writer, whose most famous novels were set in the American West