Unit 5 Choose to Be Alone on Purpose. Background Information （ 1 ） Henry David Thoreau (12 July 1817 – 6 May 1862 ） was an American author, naturalist,
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Thoreau and Walden “I went to the woods…”. Henry David Thoreau Born 1817 to a pencil manufacturer and his wife, died 1862 of tuberculosis an American.
