David Thoreau Wieck (1921–1997) was an American activist and philosophy professor.
[1] His father, Edward A. Wieck, worked for the Russell Sage Foundation and wrote about miners' associations.
[3] Wieck began publishing anarchist and antiwar articles in 1938 and was a conscientious objector during World War II.
[4] He published A Field of Broken Stones with another conscientious objector, Lowell Naeve, about their time in prison.
Both were imprisoned in the Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury, as conscientious objectors and protested its racial segregationist policies.