It happened this past week ... the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great naturalist and writer Henry David Thoreau on July 12th, 1817. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, ...

Henry David Thoreau is rightly known for the time he spent at Walden Pond near his home in Concord, Massachusetts. But a new book offers a different take on the famous author and naturalist. Author ...

Into the woods is where we're headed now . . . with Don Dahler following the trail blazed a long time ago by one of our greatest naturalists and writers: The Maine woods, with its vast forests, its ...

Henry David Thoreau died on May 6, 1862, in Concord, Mass., surrounded by books and flowers. At the funeral, his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered a eulogy that emphasized Thoreau’s ...

Henry David Thoreau’s nonfiction classic "Walden, or A Life in the Woods" was first published on this day in history, on Aug. 9, 1854. "Walden" is about the virtues of simple living and ...

After 26 years in character as the 19th-century transcendentalist writer, Richard Smith is hanging up his straw hat. By Alex Vadukul and Tony Luong In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on ...

No other 19th-century American writer manages to annoy today’s readers like Henry David Thoreau. In recent years, prominent writers have described him as “narcissistic” and “inestimably priggish and ...

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, ...

During the coldest winter in Massachusetts since 1918, painter and writer Ben Shattuck chopped off the top half inch of one of his fingers. He was on a lot of painkillers, and a string of nightmares ...