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This week's featured author pages

Leonardo Bruni (1370 - 1444) -- Italian humanist scholar, and a leading translator

Horatio Alger (1832 - 1899) -- American writer, influential in his portrayal of underprivileged youths

Washington Irving (1783 - 1859) -- early American man of letters, best known for his short stories

George Berkeley (1685 - 1753) -- English philosopher who argued against Lockean scepticism and posited an alternative based, famously, on common sense

Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850) -- influential author of an immense series of novels which attempted to give a realistic representation of French society in the 18th century