THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, April 14, 1996 TAG: 9604140093
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B7 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: STAFF REPORT
DATELINE: GENESEO, N.Y. LENGTH: Short : 30 lines
Walter R. Harding, a leading scholar on the life and works of Henry David Thoreau, died Wednesday of a stroke. He was 79.
Harding was the founding secretary and former president of the Thoreau Society in Concord, Mass. He also served as editor in chief of the standard edition of Thoreau's writings that was published by Princeton Press from 1965 to 1973.
He wrote or edited 31 books on the Massachusetts writer and naturalist, notably ``The Days of Henry Thoreau,'' ``Thoreau, Man of Concord'' and ``Henry David Thoreau, A Profile.''
Harding was an English professor at the State University of New York College at Geneseo from 1956 to 1983. He previously had taught at the University of Virginia, Rutgers University and the University of North Carolina.
His most recent book, ``Walden,'' was published last year.
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