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This week's featured author pages

Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586) -- English Renaissance writer and gentleman, whose commitment to poetry has been an inspiration to poets

Sophocles (496 - 406) -- most successful Greek tragedian, producing what were considered perfect tragedies as well as reforming the performance of Greek tragedy.

James F. Cooper (1789 - 1851) -- influential early American novelist

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

of Cusa Nicholas (1401 - 1464) -- active in the Church and later a cardinal, Nicholas is remembered in philosophy for his teaching on the unknowability of God