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This week's featured author pagesO Henry (1862 - 1910) -- American short story writer, whose ingenious and often humourous stories about everyday life made him enormously popular in the nineteenth century
John Webster (1578 - 1626) -- leading 17th century English tragedian
Anthony Hope (1863 - 1933) -- English novelist and playwright
Pythagoras (550 - 500) -- a reputed mathematician, scientist, and philosopher, about whom very little is really known
William Hamilton (1788 - 1856) -- nineteenth century philosopher of logic and metaphysics