Henry David Thoreau was an essayist, a poet, and a philosopher. Along with his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau was a leader of the transcendentalist movement. He is known for his ...

In her spectacular 2017 biography, Henry David Thoreau: A Life, Laura Dassow Walls marshaled a regiment of facts to combat the idea that Thoreau lived a lonely existence. Thoreau spent only two of ...