Robert D. Richardson

Robert D. Richardson (1934–2020) was the author of the acclaimed biographies William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism, Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind, and Emerson: The Mind on Fire. He was a recipient of the Bancroft and Francis Parkman prizes and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

“I Feel Like a Feather Floating in the Atmosphere.” How Thoreau Reckoned with the Loss of His Brother

Robert D. Richardson on the Writers’ Grief-Stricken Observations

January 25, 2023 By Robert D. Richardson

Remembering Robert Stone: Robert D. Richardson

Living as Though Everything Was a Metaphor

July 24, 2015 By Robert D. Richardson

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