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This week's featured author pages

Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) -- writer who portrayed late nineteenth and early twentieth century American society

Nicolas Malebranche (1638 - 1715) -- French philosopher who developed the theory of occasionalism in response to the Cartesian mind-body problem

Edward Bellamy (1850 - 1896) -- American political theorist and novelist

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778) -- philosopher in the French Revolution who made important contributions to the field of political philosophy

Edward M. Forster (1879 - 1970) -- notable English novelist