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Henry David Thoreau was born in in Concord, Massachusetts.!

The protagonist and narrator of E. L. Doctorow's twelfth novel, Andrew's Brain (Random House, $26), is a clumsy cognitive scientist who relates the story of his.

Adjust Henry David Thoreau as prophet, naturalist, and stealth comedian by James Marcus, Discussed in this essay: Henry David Thoreau: A Life, by Laura Dassow.

Henry David Thoreau was born in in Concord, Massachusetts.

David Thoreau, better known as Henry David Thoreau, was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, and naturalist.

And his latest book is Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently, a brief philosophical biography and introduction to the thought of Thoreau.

Acclaim for English professor’s new Thoreau biography shows transcendentalism’s resonance with modern audiences

Laura Dassow Walls, author of Henry David Thoreau: A Life. Photo by Films by Huey, courtesy of University of Chicago Press.

We need Thoreau now more than ever.

Laura Dassow Walls has heard those words over and over from people as she talks about her new biography, Henry David Thoreau: A Life.

Walls — the William P.

and Hazel B. White Professor of English — says that’s in part because Thoreau, in the midst of tumultuous times, advocated for and modeled a way to live purposefully and joyfully, through both social activism and a deep connection to nature.

“What I’ve said for many years is that Thoreau is one of us.

He’s as American as it gets,” she said. “On some really deep level, he’s built into our cultural genome. I wanted to resurrect that figure of Thoreau and show how he’s alive now, in us. And he wants that life because it’s exactly what he’s about — fin