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Henry David Thoreau
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Author of Walden (1854), an account of two years spent in a cabin on land Emerson owned at Walden Pond, and of the 1849 essay known since his death as Civil Disobedience. Part of Emerson's Concord circle from the early 1840s; Emerson urged him to keep the journal that became the source of most of his later published prose.
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Emerson owned the Walden Pond land Thoreau built his cabin on and urged him to keep a journal.
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