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Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
Thoreau, Henry David. A distinguished American writer; born in Concord, MA, July 12, 1817; died there, May 6, 1862. His works include: ‘A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers’ (1848); ‘Walden; or, Life in the Woods’ (1854); ‘Echoes of Harper’s Ferry’ (1860); ‘Excursions’ (1863); ‘The Maine Woods’ (1864); ‘Cape Cod’ (1865); ‘Letters to Various Persons’ (1865); ‘A Yankee in Canada’ (1866); ‘Early Spring in Massachusetts’ (1881); ‘Summer’ (1884); ‘Winter’ (1888); ‘Autumn’ (1892); ‘Works’ (10 vols., 1894); ‘Familiar Letters’ (1894); ‘Poems of Nature’ (1895). The posthumous volumes are made up mostly from his daily journal, begun in 1835, which numbered 30 vols., when he died. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).