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This week's featured author pagesJohn Scotus Eriugena (810 - 877) -- Irish philosopher in the Middle Ages
Anatole France (1844 - 1924) -- pseudonym of Jacques Anatole François Thibault; novelist, Nobel laureate
Tommaso Campanella (1568 - 1639) -- Italian philosopher and contemporary of Bruno and Galileo, who, although claiming to refute atheism, was imprisoned for his unconventional beliefs
Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889) -- British writer who originated the genre of detective fiction
David H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930) -- one of the greatest novelists of the century