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Henry David Thoreau
American essayist, poet, and Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.
Henry David Thoreau, the renowned American essayist and Transcendentalist, died on May 6, 1862, in Concord, Massachusetts. He was 44 years old at the time of his death, which was apparently caused by tuberculosis.12