Jeffrey S. Cramer is curator of collections, The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods. He is editor of Thoreau on Freedom: Attending to Man: Selected Writings of Henry David Thoreau (Fulcrum Publishing, 2003) and the award-winning Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition (Yale University Press, 2004). He is currently preparing for publication What I Lived For: The Annotated Selected Journals of Henry D. Thoreau (Yale University Press, 2007)