Videos

From the 31st annual Key West Literary Seminar in Key West, Florida, biographer Robert Richardson delivered a talk entitled, “In Search of Lost Time: Biography and Fiction.”

Professor Edmundson talks about his book Why Read?, published by Bloomsbury USA. The book is on the relationship between a liberal arts education and literature. The author writes that liter…

Robert Richardson talked about his biography, William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism, published by Houghton Mifflin Company. William James, the brother of novelist Henry James…

Guests discussed the history of the Early Republic, the transcendental movement, and American intellectual history through the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Emerso…

Professor Robert Richardson talked about his book, Emerson: The Mind on Fire, published by the University of California Press. It focuses on the life of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the famous mid-1…

Robert Robinson Jr., Author "Henry Thoreau-A life in Mind", talked about Henry David Thoreau and the books he wrote when he lived at Walden Pond. Mr. Thoreau lived at the pond for two years…

Author Bob Richardson talked about “Author’s Ridge” where four great 19th American authors have their graves: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Louisa May Al…

Author Robert Richardson read a portion of his work biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Emerson: The Mind on Fire.” The event was sponsored by the National Book Critics' Circle.