Howarth, William (Louis)
HOWARTH, William (Louis)
HOWARTH, William (Louis). American, b. 1940. Genres: Environmental sciences/Ecology, Literary criticism and history, Natural history. Career: Professor of English, Princeton University, NJ, 1981- (Instructor 1966-68; Assistant Professor 1968-73; Associate Professor, 1973-81). Ed.-in-Chief, the Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, 1972-80; President, Thoreau Society, 1974-75. Publications: The Literary Manuscripts of Henry David Thoreau, 1974; The Book of Concord: Thoreau's Life as a Writer, 1982; Thoreau in the Mountains, 1982; Traveling the Trans-Canada, 1987; Walking with Thoreau, 2001. EDITOR: A Thoreau Gazetteer, 1970; Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Poe's Tales, 1971; The John McPhee Reader, 1977; A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, 1980; Walden and Other Writings, 1980; C. King, Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, 1989. Address: Dept. of English, McCosh 22, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, U.S.A.