BIOGRAPHIES

Canby, Henry Seidel. Thoreau. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1939, 508 p.

Early, important critical biography of Thoreau emphasizing Thoreau’s importance as a social critic and creative thinker.

Channing, William Ellery. Thoreau the Poet-Naturalist. New York: Biblio and Tannen, 1966, 397 p.

Sympathetic biography written by one of Thoreau's best friends praising his imagination, humor, love of nature, and moral conviction.

Harding, Walter. The Days of Henry Thoreau: A Biography. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993, 502 p.

Meticulously documented biography by an eminent Thoreau scholar that portrays the artist as a remarkable man with elements of the earthly and the sublime.

CRITICISM

Harding, Walter, and Michael Meyer. The New Thoreau Handbook. New York: New York University Press, 1980, 238 p.

Includes an overview of Thoreau's life and discussions of his sources, ideas, art, and reputation.

Additional coverage of Thoreau’s life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Dictionary of American Literary Biography; Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 1; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors: British; DISCovering Authors: Canadian; DISCovering Authors Modules: Most-studied Authors; and World Literature Criticism.