October 15, 1999: Volume 47, Number 6

Author Richardson Speaks Wednesday

Robert D. Richardson Jr., author of acclaimed books on Emerson and Thoreau and on American literature and myth, will speak on "Sinking Ships, Erupting Volcanos, and the Writing of Literary Biography" on Wednesday, Oct. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in Everest Lounge.

Richardson is the author, most recently, of Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind (1986) and Emerson: The Mind on Fire (1995), for which he won the Bancroft Award in History.

His work is widely acclaimed. The Thoreau book is called "definite, outstanding, fundamental, superb;" his biography of Emerson has been praised as "graceful, humorous, acute and essential."

He has taught at Harvard University, University of Colorado and Wesleyan University.

He is the editor, with Allen Mandelbaum, of the recently published Three Centuries of American Poetry (Doubleday).

Richardson's talk is sponsored by the English department.

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