BIOGRAPHY AND PERSONALITY OF A FAMOUS CANCER: HENRY THOREAU

Writer and poet, born in Concord, Massachusetts, USA. He published a few pieces in the Transcendentalist journal Dial, wrote poetry, and lectured at the Concord Lyceum. In 1849 he published an essay, ‘Resistance to Civil Government’ which in its call for passive resistance to unjust laws was to inspire Gandhi and Martin Luther King Junior (Thomas Carlyle called it the one truly original American contribution to civilization).

Little known in his day, it was not until later in the 20^th century that he came to be regarded as one of America's major literary thinkers.