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This week's featured author pagesFrancis Bacon (1561 - 1626) -- Bacon, who was also a politician and a lawyer, advocated the founding of human activity on a common methodology of inquiry
Melissus (440 - 440) -- philosopher of the Eleatic school
Zane Grey (1875 - 1939) -- American novelist, many of whose works are set in the American West
Francis Hodgson Burnett (1848 - 1924) -- American novelist, best known for her children's books
Emily Bronte (1818 - 1848) -- introspective member of the famous Brontë family, whose only novel is one of the most significant of its period.