Author

Books by Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American essayist, poet, and philosopher, a member of the Transcendentalist movement centered in Concord, Massachusetts, and a close associate of Ralph Waldo Emerson. He worked as a surveyor, pencil-maker, and writer, and is also known for the political essay Civil Disobedience (1849), which influenced Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Thoreau was a meticulous naturalist as well as a social critic. Walden, published in 1854, was only his second book; it did not achieve wide recognition until decades after his death from tuberculosis at age 44.