Richard Higgins

Greater Boston Area United States

Writer, editor & editorial consultant

Writing / Publishing

RICHARD HIGGINS is a writer, editor and lecturer whose articles or essays have appeared in The New York Times, Smithsonian, Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Yankee, Christian Century, UU World, Harvard Divinity Bulletin and many other publications. He is the co-author of Portfolio Life (Wiley) and the editor of four books, including Taking Faith Seriously (Harvard University Press). Higgins was a staff reporter and editor for The Boston Globe for 20 years and later editor of More than Money Magazine. He has lectured before many groups on Thoreau, Emerson, the lyceum movement and religion in public life and has done commentaries on NPR. Higgins currently presents "Thoreau and the Language of Tr...