Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau, Writer / Peacenik,(born July 12, 1817,
Concord, Mass., U.S.-died May 6, 1862, Concord).
A former schoolteacher, Thoreau spent two years in the 1840s
living in a hut beside Walden Pond in Massachusetts, where he
studied nature and wrote peaceful essays and poems. His journal of
these years became his most famous work: Walden, or a Life in the
Woods (published 1854). Thoreau also wrote Civil Disobedience
(1849), advocating non-violent resistance to unethical governments;
the same notion was later advocated by Gandhi and Martin Luther
King, Jr. Always a hit with college readers, Thoreau became a pop
icon for anti-war and pro-environment groups late in the 20th
century.
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