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This week's featured author pagesErnest Hemingway (1899 - 1961) -- composer of unique, succinct novels and short stories with an individuality and style that would shape American writing.
Chrysippus (280 - 207) -- important leader of the Stoic school of thought in Greece
Bret Harte (1836 - 1902) -- writer, whose most famous novels were set in the American West
George Berkeley (1685 - 1753) -- English philosopher who argued against Lockean scepticism and posited an alternative based, famously, on common sense
Herbert G. Wells (1866 - 1946) -- widely considered the father of science fiction, H.G. Wells' works are important political and social commentary of the 20th century.