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'Woods Burner' Explores in Fiction Thoreau's Pivotal Firenew

On April 30, 1844, Henry David Thoreau began the fire that eventually burned 300 acres of forest outside his home in Concord, Mass. Woods Burner is poet and novelist John Pipkin's fictional exploration of that event, which he paints as a turning point for Thoreau.
Jackson Free Press  |  Ronni Mott  |  06-26-2009  |  Fiction

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