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    Thoreau, Henry David
    /ˈθɔːrəʊ/
    • 1. (1817–62), American essayist and poet, and a key figure in Transcendentalism. He is best known for his book Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854), an account of a two-year experiment in self-sufficiency.