First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process - Robert D. Richardson

Robert D. Richardson is the author of William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism , which won the 2007 Bancroft Prize, Emerson: The Mind on Fire , which won both the Francis Parkman Prize and the Melcher Book Award and was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind , which also won the Melcher Book Award.