Richard Higgins

Richard Higgins is a writer, book editor and the author or editor of four books, including, most recently, Thoreau’s God, from the University of Chicago Press, which explores Thoreau’s iconoclastic religious vision, and Thoreau and the Language of Trees, about Thoreau’s multifaceted love of trees. He is also the coauthor of Portfolio Life and a volume editor of the essay collection Taking Faith Seriously from Harvard University Press. A staff writer for The Boston Globe for 20 years, Richard lives in Concord and is a member of the Thoreau Society board. A graduate of Holy Cross College, Columbia Journalism School, and Harvard Divinity School, Richard has written for The New York Times, Washington Post, Christian Century, American Scholar and other publications.