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This week's featured author pagesAlexander S. Pushkin (1799 - 1837) -- known as the Shakespeare of Russia, he is also the most beloved of her poets
Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903) -- evolutionist, an advocater of Social Darwinism, and originator of sociology
Anatole France (1844 - 1924) -- pseudonym of Jacques Anatole François Thibault; novelist, Nobel laureate
Chinua Achebe (1930 - 0) -- highly regarded African writer in English
George Boole (1815 - 1864) -- mathematician, whose work allowed for the discovery of propositional calculus and Boolean algebra