Jeffrey S. Cramer (born 1955) is the Curator of Collections at the Walden Woods Project's Thoreau Institute Library, managing the collections of the Walden Woods Project, the
Thoreau Society
Founded in 1941, the Thoreau Society is the oldest and largest organization dedicated to an American author. It is based in Concord, Massachusetts, United States, at the house where Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817. With members from all 50 ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Society the Margaret Fuller Society, and the Scott and Helen Nearing Papers. He has written and edited 11 books about the works of such American literary figures as
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champ ...
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Henry David Thoreau, and
Robert Frost.
Jim Fleming of
Wisconsin Public Radio
Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR) is a network of 34 public radio stations in the state of Wisconsin. WPR's network is divided into two distinct analog services, the ''Ideas Network'' and the '' NPR News & Music Network,'' as well as the ''All Classic ...
said that Cramer "lives and breathes Thoreau. He may know more about the bard at Walden Pond than anyone else alive."
Cramer has received the
National Outdoor Book Award
The National Outdoor Book Award (NOBA) was formed in 1997 as an American-based non-profit program which each year presents awards honoring the best in outdoor writing and publishing. It is housed at Idaho State University and chaired by Ron Watte ...
(2004), the Boston Authors Club's Julia Ward Howe Book Award (2005) and the Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in Humanities
(2011).
External links
Author's website
References
1955 births
Living people
American academics of English literature
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