{"id":283,"date":"2021-06-30T14:33:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T14:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cltexamdev.wpengine.com\/?post_type=cpt_tests&#038;p=283"},"modified":"2025-12-22T14:28:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:28:33","slug":"authors","status":"publish","type":"cpt_tests","link":"https:\/\/www.cltexam.com\/tests\/authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n        <section class=\"intro-content\">\n            <div class=\"container\">\n                <div class=\"intro-content__content\">\n                    <h2 style=\"text-align: center; color: #333333; font-size: 32px; line-height: 40px; margin-bottom: 15px;\">Discover the Authors Used on Our Exams<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Standardized testing isn&#8217;t just about results. At Classic Learning Test, we believe standardized testing provides an invaluable opportunity to engage students with the texts and authors that have shaped history and culture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Two-thirds of reading and writing passages for the CLT and CLT10 are drawn from the list of authors below. Want to learn more about these authors? Click on the linked names to read short essays about an author&#8217;s life and work, or check out our <a href=\"\/journey-through-the-author-bank\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Journey Through the Author Bank<\/a> seminar series, led by professors from our Partner Colleges.<\/p>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n\n    \n\n        \n        <section class=\"masonry-cards\">\n            <div class=\"container\">\n                <div class=\"masonry-cards__header\">\n                    <h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Authors (By Time Period)<\/h4>\n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"masonry-cards__row\">\n                    <div class=\"masonry-cards__grid-sizer\"><\/div>\n                                            <div class=\"masonry-cards__card\">\n                            <div class=\"masonry-cards__card-header\">\n                                <h4>Ancients<\/h4>\n                            <\/div>\n                            <div class=\"masonry-cards__body\">\n                                <p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/gilgamesh-wisdom-from-the-dawn-of-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Epic of Gilgamesh<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 18th c. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BC<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/homer-an-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Homer<\/a>, 9th c. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BC<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/hesiod-gods-of-gold-and-iron\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hesiod<\/a>, 8th c. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BC<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/aesop-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00c6sop<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 621-565 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BC<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/confucius-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Confucius<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 551-479 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BC<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/aeschylus-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00c6schylus<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 525-455 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BC<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/sophocles-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sophocles<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 496-406 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BC<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/herodotus-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Herodotus<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 484-425 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BC<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/euripides-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Euripides<\/a>, 480-406 BC<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/thucydides-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thucydides<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 460-400 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BC<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/hippocrates-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hippocrates<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 460-370 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BC<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/plato-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plato<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 428-347 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BC<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/aristotle-the-master-of-those-who-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aristotle<\/a>, 382-322 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BC<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/euclid-the-measure-of-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Euclid<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 4th-3rd c. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BC<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/archimedes-the-mathematician-with-a-hundred-hands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Archimedes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 287-212 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BC<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/terence-the-paradoxes-of-comedy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terence<\/a>, 195-159 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BC<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/cicero-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cicero<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 106-43 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BC<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/caesar-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Julius C\u00e6sar<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 100-44 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BC<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/lucretius-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lucretius<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 99-55 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BC<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/virgil-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Virgil<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 70-19 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BC<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/livy-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Livy<\/a>, 59 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BC<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AD<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 17<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/ovid-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ovid<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 43 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BC<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AD<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 17<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/seneca-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seneca the Younger<\/a>, 4 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BC<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AD<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 65<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/josephus-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josephus<\/a>, 37-100<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/plutarch-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plutarch<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 46-120<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/epictetus-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Epictetus<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 55-135<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/tacitus-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tacitus<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 56-120<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/tertullian-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tertullian<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 160-220<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/origen-the-godfather-of-christian-theology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Origen<\/a>, 184-253<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/st-athanasius-alone-against-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St. Athanasius<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 297-373<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/st-gregory-of-nyssa-light-from-the-east\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Gregory of Nyssa<\/a>, 335-395<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/st-jerome\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Jerome<\/a>, 342-420<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/augustine-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St. Augustine of Hippo<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 354-430<\/span><\/p>\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                                            <div class=\"masonry-cards__card\">\n                            <div class=\"masonry-cards__card-header\">\n                                <h4>Medievals<\/h4>\n                            <\/div>\n                            <div class=\"masonry-cards__body\">\n                                <p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/boethius-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boethius<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 477-524<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/st-benedict-the-godfather-of-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Benedict<\/a>, 480-547<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/procopius-the-secrets-of-byzantium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Procopius<\/a>, 500-570<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/st-gregory-the-great-father-of-the-eternal-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Gregory the Great<\/a>, 540-604<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/st-bede-the-year-of-our-lord\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Bede the Venerable<\/a>, 673-735<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/beowulf-book-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beowulf<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 9th c.?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/the-thousand-and-one-nights-a-cunning-beauty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Thousand and One Nights<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 9th c.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/avicenna-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avicenna<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 980-1037<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/anselm-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St. Anselm of Canterbury<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1034-1109<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/abelard-questions-comments-and-calamities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Ab\u00e6lard<\/a>, 1079-1142<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/st-bernard-of-clairvaux-an-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Bernard of Clairvaux<\/a>, 1090-1153<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/hugh-of-st-victor-the-renaissance-before-the-renaissance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hugh of St. Victor<\/a>, 1096-1141<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/st-hildegard-of-bingen-the-sibyl-of-the-rhine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Hildegard of Bingen<\/a>, 1098-1179<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/an-author-profile-of-heloise-dargenteuil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">H\u00e9lo\u00efse d\u2019Argenteuil<\/a>, 1100-1164<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/averroes-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Averro\u00ebs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1126-1198<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/maimonides-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moses Maimonides<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1138-1204<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/de-france-the-mother-of-arthur\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marie de France<\/a>, 1160-1215<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/the-nibelungenlied-a-romance-of-disaster-and-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nibelungenlied<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, c. 1200<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/magna-carta-the-law-is-king\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Magna Carta<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1215<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/aquinas-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St. Thomas Aquinas<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1225-1274<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/the-saga-of-erik-the-red-america-before-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Saga of Erik the Red<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 13th c.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/dante-the-modern-medieval\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dante Alighieri<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1265-1321<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/boccaccio-an-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Giovanni Boccaccio<\/a>, 1313-1375<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/wycliffe-the-waning-of-the-middle-ages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Wycliffe<\/a>, 1328-1384<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/chaucer-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Geoffrey Chaucer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1343-1400<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/julian-of-norwich-illuminating-love\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Julian of Norwich<\/a>, 1343-1420<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/catherine-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St. Catherine of Siena<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1347-1380<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/christine-de-pizan-an-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christine de Pizan<\/a>, 1364-1430<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/the-pearl-poet-the-mysteries-of-the-holy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pearl<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/the-pearl-poet-the-mysteries-of-the-holy\/\"> Poet<\/a>, 14th c.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/a-kempis-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thomas \u00e0 Kempis,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 1380-1471<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/malory-peril-piety-and-perdition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sir Thomas Malory<\/a>, 1415-1471<\/span><\/p>\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                                            <div class=\"masonry-cards__card\">\n                            <div class=\"masonry-cards__card-header\">\n                                <h4>Early Moderns<\/h4>\n                            <\/div>\n                            <div class=\"masonry-cards__body\">\n                                <p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/erasmus-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Desiderius Erasmus<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1466-1536<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/machiavelli-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Niccol\u00f2 Machiavelli<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1469-1527<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/copernicus-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nicolaus Copernicus<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1473-1543<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/more-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St. Thomas More<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1478-1535<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/luther-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Martin Luther<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1483-1546<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/las-casas-the-morning-star-of-human-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bartolom\u00e9 de Las Casas<\/a>, 1484-1566<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/calvin-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John Calvin,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 1509-1564<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/teresa-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St. Teresa of \u00c1vila<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1515-1582<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/montaigne-the-checkered-shades-of-faith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michel de Montaigne<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1533-1592<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/bacon-the-father-of-modern-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Francis Bacon<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1561-1626<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/shakespeare-an-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William Shakespeare<\/a>, 1564-1616<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/galileo-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Galileo Galilei<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1564-1642<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/donne-earthly-and-heavenly-loves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Donne<\/a>, 1572-1631<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/hobbes-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thomas Hobbes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1588-1679<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/descartes-the-foundation-of-the-modern-mind\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ren\u00e9 Descartes<\/a>, 1598-1650<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/milton-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John Milton<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1608-1674<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/pascal-the-calculation-of-divinity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blaise Pascal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1623-1662<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/cavendish-the-blazing-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Margaret Cavendish<\/a>, 1623-1673<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/boyle-the-sceptical-chymist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Boyle<\/a>, 1627-1691<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/bunyan-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John Bunyan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1628-1688<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/locke-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John Locke<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1632-1704<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/newton-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Isaac Newton,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 1642-1727<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/leibniz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gottfried Leibniz<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1646-1716<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/montesquieu-the-grandfather-of-the-constitution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles Montesquieu<\/a>, 1689-1755<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/voltaire-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Voltaire,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 1694-1778<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/edwards-father-of-the-great-awakening\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jonathan Edwards<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1703-1758<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/franklin-revolutionary-scientist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Benjamin Franklin<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1706-1790<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/hume-the-skeptics-skeptic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Hume<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1711-1776<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/rousseau-of-savages-and-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jean-Jacques Rousseau<\/a>, 1712-1778<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/smith-the-soft-science-of-hard-cash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adam Smith<\/a>, 1723-1790<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/kant-the-evening-star-of-the-enlightenment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Immanuel Kant<\/a>, 1724-1804<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/gibbon-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Edward Gibbon<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1737-1794<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/lavoisier-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Antoine Lavoisier<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1743-1794<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/jefferson-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thomas Jefferson<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1743-1826<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/equiano-an-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Olaudah Equiano<\/a>, 1745-1797<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/von-goethe-the-father-of-romanticism\/\">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/a>, 1749-1832<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/madison-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">James Madison<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1751-1836<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/wollstonecraft-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mary Wollstonecraft<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1759-1797<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/hegel-dialectics-of-being\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Georg W. F. Hegel<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1770-1831<\/span><\/p>\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                                            <div class=\"masonry-cards__card\">\n                            <div class=\"masonry-cards__card-header\">\n                                <h4>Late Moderns<\/h4>\n                            <\/div>\n                            <div class=\"masonry-cards__body\">\n                                <p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/austen-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jane Austen<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1775-1817<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/the-brothers-grimm-of-facts-and-faerie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jakob &amp; Wilhelm Grimm<\/a>, 1785-1863 &amp; 1786-1859<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/shelley-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mary Shelley<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1797-1851<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/sojourner-truth-an-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sojourner Truth<\/a>, 1797-1883<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/newman-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St. John Henry Newman<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1801-1890<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/tocqueville-the-eighth-sage\/\">Alexis de Tocqueville<\/a>, 1805-1859<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/andersen-the-life-changing-magic-of-actual-magic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hans Christian Andersen<\/a>, 1805-1875<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/john-stuart-mill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Stuart Mill<\/a>, 1806-1873<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/edgar-allan-poe-an-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edgar Allan Poe<\/a>, 1809-1849<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/darwin-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Charles Darwin<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1809-1882<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/dickens-satire-and-sentiment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Charles Dickens<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1812-1870<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/kierkegaard-the-father-of-existentialism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1813-1855<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/bronte-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Charlotte Bront\u00eb<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1816-1855<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/thoreau-defiance-loneliness-and-beauty\/\">Henry David Thoreau<\/a>, 1817-1862<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/marx-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Karl Marx<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1818-1883<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/douglass-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frederick Douglass<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1818-1895<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/eliot-an-un-provincial-mind\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">George Eliot<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1819-1880<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/melville-the-smile-of-the-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Herman Melville<\/a>, 1819-1891<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/susan-b-anthony-liberty-and-justice-for-all\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Susan B. Anthony<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1820-1906<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/dostoevsky-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fyodor Dostoevsky<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1821-1881<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/mendel-the-father-of-heredity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gregor Mendel<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1822-1884<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/pasteur-the-war-of-life-against-life\/\">Louis Pasteur<\/a>, 1822-1895<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/tolstoy-an-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leo Tolstoy<\/a>, 1828-1910<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/twain-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mark Twain<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1835-1910<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/nietzsche-death-of-deity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friedrich Nietzsche<\/a>, 1844-1900<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/wilde-the-importance-of-being-flippant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oscar Wilde<\/a>, 1854-1900<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/freud-the-enigma-of-the-mind\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sigmund Freud<\/a>, 1856-1939<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/cooper-mens-immota-manet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anna Julia Cooper<\/a>, 1858-1964<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/anton-chekhov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anton Chekhov<\/a>, 1860-1904<\/p>\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                                            <div class=\"masonry-cards__card\">\n                            <div class=\"masonry-cards__card-header\">\n                                <h4>Late Moderns, Cont.<\/h4>\n                            <\/div>\n                            <div class=\"masonry-cards__body\">\n                                <p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/whitehead-the-procession-of-the-universe\/\">Alfred North Whitehead<\/a>, 1861-1947<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/wells-the-home-of-the-brave\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ida B. Wells<\/a>, 1862-1931<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/du-bois-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">W. E. B. Du Bois<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1868-1963<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/gandhi-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mahatma Gandhi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1869-1948<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/cather-rock-wind-and-sun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Willa Cather<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1873-1947<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/g-k-chesterton-an-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">G. K. Chesterton<\/a>, 1874-1936<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/einstein-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Albert Einstein<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1879-1936<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/woolf-upon-the-waters\/\">Virginia Woolf<\/a>, 1882-1941<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/keynes-the-law-and-the-profits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Maynard Keynes<\/a>, 1882-1946<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/kafka-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Franz Kafka<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1883-1924<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/wittgenstein-the-subtle-art-of-language\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ludwig Wittgenstein<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1889-1951<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/hurston-portrait-of-an-african-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zora Neale Hurston<\/a>, 1891-1960<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/tolkien-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">J. R. R. Tolkien<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1892-1973<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/sayers-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dorothy Sayers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1893-1957<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/fitzgerald-the-age-of-jazz\/\"><span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/fitzgerald-the-age-of-jazz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/span><\/a><span>, 1896-1940<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/lewis-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">C. S. Lewis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1898-1963<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/hemingway-to-write-the-truth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ernest Hemingway<\/a>, 1899-1961<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/borges-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jorge Luis Borges<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1899-1986<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/hayek-autonomy-or-autocracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friedrich Hayek<\/a>, 1899-1992<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/hughes-the-pride-of-harlem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Langston Hughes<\/a>, 1901-1967<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/steinbeck-grief-and-beauty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John Steinbeck<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1902-1968<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/orwell-the-cost-of-the-truth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Orwell<\/a>, 1903-1950<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/arendt-the-inhumanity-of-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hannah Arendt<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1906-1975<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/camus-humanity-is-defiance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Albert Camus<\/a>, 1913-1960<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/solzhenitsyn-a-lamp-in-the-dark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1918-2008<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/baldwin-author-profile\/\">James Baldwin<\/a>, 1924-1987<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/oconnor-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flannery O\u2019Connor<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1925-1964<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/elie-wiesel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elie Wiesel<\/a>, 1928-2016<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/king-author-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Martin Luther King Jr<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">., 1929-1968<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cltexam.com\/morrison-peace-which-passeth-understanding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toni Morrison<\/a>, 1931-2019<\/p>\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                                    <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n\n    \n\n        \n        <section class=\"quote quote--right bg\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.cltexam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img-authors-plato-quote.jpg');\">\n            <div class=\"container\">\n                <div class=\"quote__content\">\n                    <h2><span>\u201cTyrannical power should not be the aim either of individuals or states, if they would be happy, but virtue.\u201d<\/span><\/h2>\n                    <h5>Plato<\/h5>\n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"quote__big-author\">\n                    <h2>Plato<\/h2>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n\n    \n\n\n\t\t<section class=\"cta cta--right\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cta__card bg\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.cltexam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img-global-cta-banner-e1624994727614.jpg');\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cta__row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cta__content\">\n                            <h2>Take a CLT Practice Test Today<\/h2>\n<p>To take a free practice test for the CLT or CLT10, you must log into your CLT account. 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