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This week's featured author pages

Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731) -- prolific English novelist and journalist

Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973) -- first American Nobel Prizewinner whose writings reflected the 40 years she spent in China.

Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) -- by revolutionising the field of biology, Darwin had an immesurable impact on science, philosophy, and literature from the nineteenth century on

Henry W. Longfellow (1807 - 1882) -- nineteenth century American poet

Diogenes Laertius (300 - 300) -- a biographer of ancient philosophers, Diogenes Laertius' works provide us with some important information about leading Greek philosophers