Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poet, essayist, philosopher, lecturer, abolitionist, activist for the transcendentalist movement
Christopher Hitchens
Atheist, pioneer in atheism, polemicist, author of God Is Not Great, philosopher, columnist, essayist, orator, journalist, social critic, literary critic
1949-2011 (62)
Henry David Thoreau
Philosopher aka Henry Thoreau, naturalist, Walden Woods, essayist, poet, transcendentalist writer, author of Walden: Life in the Woods, Civil Disobedience
1817-1862 (45)
plato.stanford.edu
St. George Tucker
Slavery abolitionist, essayist, author of View of the Constitution
encyclopediavirginia.org
Walt Whitman
Poet, writer, author, journalist, essayist, wrote the poem "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" in 1865
1819-1892 (73)
whitmanarchive.org
