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This week's featured author pagesJohn Keats (1795 - 1821) -- nineteenth century English poet, a principal figure in the Romantic movement
Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586) -- English Renaissance writer and gentleman, whose commitment to poetry has been an inspiration to poets
Nicolas Malebranche (1638 - 1715) -- French philosopher who developed the theory of occasionalism in response to the Cartesian mind-body problem
Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915) -- American educator and writer, who urged for African American economic independence
Mary Shelley (1797 - 1851) -- novelist of the Romantic period, best remembered for her novel Frankenstein