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This week's featured author pages

Seneca (4 - 65) -- Roman statesman, tragic poet, and Stoic philosopher; one of the leading writers in the Silver Age of Latin literature

Karl Popper (1902 - 1994) -- Austrian-born British philosopher, whose main contribution was to the philosophy of science

Walter Pater (1839 - 1894) -- British critic and essayist, who influenced Wilde and the Aesthetic movement generally

Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) -- one of the greatest of all novelists; Russian author of realistic fiction.

William James (1842 - 1910) -- nineteenth century American philosopher and psychologist, the son of Henry James