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This week's featured author pages

H. Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925) -- prolific English novelist and colonial administrator, whose writings are set in exotic regions of the world

Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986) -- best known as Jean-Paul Sartre's lover, de Beauvoir was an accomplished novelist, feminist critic, and existentialist philosopher

Siegfried L. Sassoon (1886 - 1967) -- remembered best for his war poems, Sasoon was also a successful novelist

Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (1814 - 1876) -- a Russian revolutionist, Bakunin was an advocate of anarchism, who was critical of existing mores and who advocated a model of non-governmental collectivism

Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947) -- British mathematician and philosopher, who collaborated on his master work, Principia Mathematica, with his former student Bertrand Russell