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This week's featured author pagesEpictetus (55 - 135) -- Epictetus developed a Stoic ethics and led a life in accordance with them, professing to be indifferent to physical, societal, and psychological pain
Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941) -- notable novelist and feminist critic
Moses Maimonides (1135 - 1204) -- Jewish philosopher and jurist
Joseph A. Altsheler (1862 - 1919) -- American writer whose works have been very popular with youth
Kate Chopin (1850 - 1904) -- American writer, whose most famous novel, The Awakening, is remembered for its feminist themes