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This week's featured author pages

Bruno Bauer (1809 - 1882) -- German writer and historian, whose philosophical position can be described as Left Hegelian

Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982) -- Russian-born American novelist, who developed in her fiction a philosophy based on objectivism, which promoted rational self-interest, unregulated capitalism, and absolute individualism

Elizabeth B. Browning (1806 - 1861) -- a great English poet whose most famous works are love poems

Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321) -- Italian poet, philosopher whose epic poem The Divine Comedy is the greatest and most influential of medieval poetry.

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896) -- American writer, who wrote an unmatched powerful indictment of slavery, Uncle Tom's Cabin