Thoreau's God

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.

Dubbed "The Adele of Audiobooks" by The New Yorker, Julia Whelan is an author, screenwriter, lifelong actor, and acclaimed audiobook narrator of over 600 titles. Her performance of her own debut novel, the international bestseller My Oxord Year (coming soon to Netflix), garnered a Society of Voice Arts awards. Her 2022 novel, Thank You For Listening, was a Best-of-the-Year pick at Amazon, Audible, and NPR as well as a Goodreads Choice Award nominee and winner of the Golden Poppy. She is the founder of Audiobrary, a new audio publishing company and app, and her latest books - the 8-part romance audio series Casanova LLC and the annotated Victorian poetry anthology The Poetry of My Oxford Year - debuted exclusively on Audiobrary. She is also a Grammy-nominated audiobook director, a former writing tutor, a half-decent amateur baker, and a certified tea sommelier. audiobrary.com