Maxine Hong Kingston on Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson

On May 1, 2023, Library of America celebrated four decades as the champion of our nation’s greatest literary voices with a gala reception at the elegant Metropolitan Club in New York City. In this excerpt from the program, pioneering memoirist and fiction writer Maxine Hong Kingston discusses Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Beautiful