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Henry David Thoreau
American essayist, poet, and Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.
Henry David Thoreau spent the vast majority of his life in Concord, Massachusetts. Born there in 1817, he remained deeply connected to the village throughout his life, despite brief periods away for his education at Harvard University and his famous two-year experiment in simple living at Walden Pond from 1845 to 1847. He ultimately returned to Concord, where he lived until his death in 1862.123