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This week's featured author pages

Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) -- American poet and journalist, most famous for his controversial but technically brilliant early poetry

Wilhelm Dilthey (1833 - 1911) -- German philosopher, whose contributions include the development of hermeneutics and broadening the application of Kant's philosophy

Theodore Dreiser (1871 - 1945) -- American novelist, who was a leading figure in the naturalist movement

Melissus (440 - 440) -- philosopher of the Eleatic school

James Joyce (1882 - 1941) -- the most influential novelist of the 20th century