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This week's featured author pages

Jean Babtiste Racine (1639 - 1699) -- Master of French classical tragedy

Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832) -- English philosopher who founded utilitarianism and wrote extensively on the philosophy of law, economics, and politics

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830 - 1886) -- American whose poetry deals with universal themes in a profoundly original manner.

David H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930) -- one of the greatest novelists of the century

Cesare Beccaria (1738 - 1794) -- Italian jurist who, preempting Bentham, encouraged the improvement of prison systems in Europe