Bradley Dean, 51, Thoreau Scholar
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Bradley Dean, who helped turn Henry David Thoreau’s hundreds of pages of handwriting and notes into an acclaimed book, died January 14 of a heart attack at his home in Bloomington, In. He was 51.
Dean taught at Indiana University, where he was a research associate in the English department.
Dean’s decoding of Thoreau’s notes resulted in “Wild Fruits,” published in 2000. He also helped get Thoreau’s “Faith in a Seed” and “Letters to a Spiritual Seeker” published. At the time of his death, he was working on Thoreau’s unpublished “Indian Notebooks.”
