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This week's featured author pages

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

Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) -- Scottish historian and essayist, who famously argued that history is the biography of great men

Franz Brentano (1838 - 1917) -- German philosopher who, building on Aristotle and from an empirical standpoint, developed a philosophy which was a forerunner to phenomenology

Siegfried L. Sassoon (1886 - 1967) -- remembered best for his war poems, Sasoon was also a successful novelist

Gilbert Parker (1862 - 1932) -- Canadian-born author and politician