Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts. He
spent time as a school teacher after attending Harvard College but
was dismissed for his refusal to administer corporal punishment. In
1845, wanting to write his first book, he moved to Walden Pond and
built his cabin on land owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It was during
his time at Walden that Thoreau was imprisoned briefly for not
paying taxes; this experience became the basis for his well-known
essay "Civil Disobedience." He died of tuberculosis in 1862 at the
age of 44.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an essayist, poet, philosopher,
and anti-slavery activist. Among his other notable books are A Week
on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and Civil
Disobedience.Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982), was a Pulitzer
Prize-winning poet and author of such eminent works as Conquistador
and J.B.
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