Bruce Nichols

Sarah Cutler

About The Author

Bruce Nichols grew up in a Unitarian household, twenty minutes from Concord, Massachusetts. During an almost forty-year career in publishing, he served as publisher of both Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) and Little, Brown and Company, the original publishers of Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Louisa May Alcott. At HMH, he regularly reissued Thoreau’s works.

Books by Bruce Nichols

The Emerson Circle

The Concord Radicals Who Reinvented the World

By Bruce Nichols
A lively and captivating journey through the world of the Transcendentalists, America’s first group of public intellectuals, whose visionary ideas reinvented our culture and politics and remain an inspiration today.

“An impeccable and often dazzling behind-the-scenes look at the...
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