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This week's featured author pagesSocrates (470 - 399) -- Athenian philosopher who had an incalculable influence on Plato and subsequent philosophy
Gottlob Frege (1848 - 1925) -- the most important modern logician and philosopher of mathematics
Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972) -- influential 20th century American poet and critic
John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968) -- American Nobel laureate, Steinbeck's works encompassed his personal knowledge about his native state of California.
Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956) -- German poet and playwright whose theories of a relationship of alienation between audience and theatre had a marked inpact on the development of drama.