Henry David Thoreau
12-Jul-1817
United States
Author
Henry David Thoreau began writing poetry in nature in the 1840s, with the poet Ralph Waldo Emerson as a mentor and friend. In 1845 he began his famous two-year stay at Walden Pond, which he wrote in his masterpiece, Walden. He was also known for his beliefs in Transcendentalism and civil disobedience and was a devoted heretic.