As someone who tramps about Henry David Thoreau’s Concord for many miles each year, I find myself pulled more toward the lesser-known forests where the man himself walked, rather than Walden Pond, ...

A view of the timeless Walden Pond on May 23 in Concord, Mass. (Elise Amendola / The Associated Press) Is there a more misunderstood American icon than Henry David Thoreau? You know, that lazy moocher ...

Henry David Thoreau: A Life. By Laura Dassow Walls. University of Chicago Press; 613 pages; $35 and £26.50. ON AN April night in 1844, a distraught Henry David Thoreau walked through the blackened ...

Henry David Thoreau, author of Walden and Civil Disobedience, was born 200 years ago in 1817. Biographer Kevin Dann says the philosopher's ideas... If Thoreau Were Alive, He'd Be 'Shouting From The ...

The new biography "Henry David Thoreau: A Life" is the masterpiece that the gadfly of youthful America deserves. I have been reading Thoreau and reading about him for 40 years; I've written a book ...

As someone who tramps about Henry David Thoreau’s Concord for many miles each year, I find myself pulled more toward the lesser-known forests where the man himself walked, rather than Walden Pond, ...

Every year, students come into my office and say, "I don't know what I want to do with my life." Of course, plenty of people in the world don't have the luxury of such cluelessness, but my students ...

Robert D. Richardson was well into his college teaching career and a continent away from his Massachusetts boyhood when he was called home, creatively speaking. During a prestigious fellowship at the ...

Henry David Thoreau spent hours hiking in the woods near his small cabin on Walden Pond. "He figured out that the way to break through into his own way of doing things was to think as he walked," ...