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This week's featured author pages

E.W. Hornung (1866 - 1921) -- well-known writer of mystery and detective stories

Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889) -- British writer who originated the genre of detective fiction

James Curwood (1878 - 1927) -- American novelist, who most of his life in Owosso, Michigan

Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689 - 1755) -- French political philosopher

George Berkeley (1685 - 1753) -- English philosopher who argued against Lockean scepticism and posited an alternative based, famously, on common sense