Elizabeth Hall Witherell Editor

Henry D. Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American Transcendentalist writer and naturalist who is best known for his book Walden and the essay “Civil Disobedience.” Robert N. Hudspeth is professor emeritus of English at the University of Redlands. Elizabeth Hall Witherell is Editor-in-Chief of The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau. Lihong Xie is Associate Textual Editor of The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau.