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This week's featured author pagesAnatole France (1844 - 1924) -- pseudonym of Jacques Anatole François Thibault; novelist, Nobel laureate
Willa Sibert Cather (1876 - 1947) -- novelist, who memorably portrayed the life of American settlers
Giambattista Vico (1668 - 1744) -- influential Italian philosopher, who argued that we can have certain knowledge only about things which we have created
Zeno of Citium (334 - 262) -- founder of the Hellenistic school of Stoic philosophy
Bierce Ambrose (1842 - 1914) -- prominent American journalist during the time of the Civil War, and writer of short stories strongly influenced by Poe