#  Richard Higgins 

Associate, Transcendentalism Initiative

 

 

 



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 email <rhiggins@hds.harvard.edu> 

 



 

Richard Higgins is a writer, book coach and the author or editor of five books, including, most recently, *Thoreau’s God*, from the University of Chicago Press, which explores Thoreau’s iconoclastic religious quest, and *Thoreau and the Language of Trees*, about Thoreau’s multifaceted love of trees. A *Boston Globe* staff writer for 20 years, Richard is a member of the Thoreau Society board. A graduate of Holy Cross College, Columbia Journalism School, and Harvard Divinity School (MTS), Richard has written for *The New York Times*, *Washington Post*, *Christian Century*, *American Scholar,* and other publications.



 

 

 





 

 

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