One of those urges in Hawthorne’s fiction was to illuminate the difficulties of life for the artist or writer in the U.S. of ...

Hawthorne, born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, was the great-grandson of Judge John Hathorne, one of the most fervent prosecutors in the town’s witchcraft trials. Hathorne played a ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne as a romantic hero? That’s some fantasy. Alice Hoffman’s ‘The Invisible Hour’ is the latest fervent tribute to the power of literature and libraries ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne was so ashamed of his Puritan ancestors, he changed his name. Hawthorne, who was born in Salem, ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne resided in Stockbridge (no, not Lenox) for just 15 months from August 1850 to November 1851, but he left his mark. He named everything that he saw from his writing room window: ...

She was a guest on Maine Public Radio’s call-in show, Maine Calling, which on May 2, 2023, discussed the work and legacy of Hawthorne, as well as efforts that are being made to restore his boyhood ...

The passages on North Adams are the subject of "The North Adams Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne," an annotated excerpt of the larger work, edited by Molly Rideout and published by The Bear & Bee ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's former home at 18 Chestnut St. in Salem is on the market for $1.85 million. Remark Visions. It’s not “The House of the Seven Gables,” the namesake of Nathaniel ...

In 1825, the great novelist-to-be Nathaniel Hawthorne sat, along with many fellow Bowdoin students, to have his likeness recorded by a silhouette artist. Or did he? Director of Special Collections & ...

When did Nathaniel Hawthorne live on Chestnut Street in Salem? Hawthorne lived in the house with his wife and three children from 1846 to 1847 when he held the position of Surveyor of the Port of ...