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This week's featured author pages

Avicenna (980 - 1037) -- greatest Islamic philosopher, whose writings also influenced the fields of science and medicine

Frank Norris (1870 - 1902) -- American novelist

Henry Van Dyke (1852 - 1933) -- American clergyman and writer

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

Ralph Cudworth (1617 - 1680) -- a representative of the Cambridge Platonists, Cudworth argued extensively against reductivism