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HIS OWN JOURNEY TO WALDEN SCHOLAR TOOK A LONG PATH TO GRASPING THOREAU AND EMERSON

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20020523
Author:Richard Higgins, Globe Correspondent

CONCORD - As one of the nation's preeminent experts on Henry David Thoreau, Robert D. Richardson is already getting invitations to take part in 2004 in the 150th anniversary of the 1854 publication of "Walden."

Richardson is the author of biographies of Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1986 and 1995. Last year, he became the first person to win special awards in the same year from the two scholarly societies devoted to the two thinkers.

However, Richardson said he didn't "get" Thoreau until well into middle age. When he moved from Wisconsin to Concord at the age of 15, his first ...

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