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This week's featured author pages

Chinua Achebe (1930 - 0) -- highly regarded African writer in English

Diogenes the Cynic (304 - 323) -- notorious Greek cynic philosopher

Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922) -- French writer of a mammoth multi-volume life's work that explored human sensations and attempted to chart the whole of a life's experience.

Georg Cantor (1845 - 1918) -- mathematician who developed set theory and mathematics of the infinite

Melissus (440 - 440) -- philosopher of the Eleatic school