Young as he was, he established a reputation at Harvard of being an individualist. Nevertheless, he entered Harvard in 1833 as a scholarship student. He attended Concord Academy, where his record was good but not outstanding. Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817, in Concord, Mass., and lived there most of his life it became, in fact, his universe. He was a superb literary craftsman and the most notable American nature writer. But Thoreau was not only a disseminator of major ideas. His advocacy of civil disobedience against an unjust government, though it caused hardly a ripple in his time, later influenced Mohandas Gandhi's campaign for Indian independence and still influences many of today's radicals. His criticism of living only for money and material values apparently carries more conviction all the time. Though a minority of one, largely ignored in his own day, Henry David Thoreau has since become a world influence. He is best known for his classic book, "Walden." Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American writer, a dissenter, and, after Emerson, the outstanding transcendentalist.
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