Walden writer's touching article that bores you (7)
I believe the answer is:
thoreau
'walden writer's' is the definition.
(Henry David Thoreau, writer of the book Walden)
'touching article that bores you' is the wordplay.
'touching' becomes 're' (re can mean touching or regarding).
'article' becomes 'a' (the indefinite article in English).
'that bores' is an insertion indicator (bore can mean to drill into).
'you' becomes 'thou' (historical second person pronoun).
're'+'a'='rea'
'rea' going into 'thou' is 'THOREAU'.
(Other definitions for thoreau that I've seen before include "an American one" , "One who wrote" , "Henry David -, US author (Walden)" , "American writer" , "French writer" .)