Ralph Waldo Emerson
25-May-1803
United States
Author
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born May 25, 1803, in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1821, he took over as the director of his brother's school. In 1823, he wrote the poem "Bye." In 1832, he became a Transcendentalist, which led to the recent books "Confidence" and "The American Scholar." Emerson continued to write and lectures in the late 1870s. He died April 27, 1882, in Concord, Massachusetts.