Sometimes I forget, as someone who chooses to immerse himself in #Thoreau and Thoreau scholarship, that there are still lots of misconceptions about his life and work. I highly recommend the biography, "Henry David Thoreau: A Life," by Laura Dassow Walls
As John Updike said in the introduction to the Princeton edition of "Walden":
"...the book itself risks being as revered and unread as the Bible."