Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) is the author of dozens of books and essays, including On Civil Disobedience and The Maine Woods.
Mel Foster, an audiobook narrator since 2002, won an Audie Award for Finding God in Unexpected Places by Philip Yancey. He has also won several AudioFile Earphones Awards. Best known for mysteries, Mel has also narrated classic authors such as Thoreau, Nabokov, and Whitman.