It’s fascinating to see Brock Hatton and Tyler Galindo take on these versions of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. Both actors suit the division of the two perfectly. Brock is all fussy ...

The play follows the year and a half that authors Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne spent living only a mile away from each other in the Berkshires. At the same time, Melville wrote and ...

No one, that is, except for Nathaniel Hawthorne, his intimate confidant and sometimes editor. Should he tarry too late at Arrowhead to return to Lenox, Hawthorne stayed in an adjacent guest room. They ...

“My sister Augusta begs me to send her sincerest regards both to you and Mr. Hawthorne,” Melville wrote to Sophia Hawthorne, Nathaniel’s wife. Herman Melville was born in New York in 1819 ...

Herman Melville had met Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850 and recognized him instantly as a literary soulmate. Melville's letters (Hawthorne's have been lost) show a rapport and intimacy that go beyond ...

Contemporary artist Dan Ford’s painting is a witty play on Asher B. Durand’s 1849 Kindred Spirits (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art), which portrays the artist Thomas Cole and the poet and ...

Each year, the Berkshire County Historical Society marks two significant literary events that took place in early August — Herman Melville was born on Aug. 1, 1819, and he made his hike up Great ...

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: ...

Other Melville friends and enthusiasts, including Nathaniel Hawthorne (Melville’s Western Massachusetts neighbor), Elizabeth Hardwick, and, for a brief moment, Martin Scorsese and Quentin ...

Melville arrived in the Berkshires with his wife, Elizabeth, and their infant son, Malcolm, a month later. Hawthorne, the more established writer, had favorably reviewed Melville's novel Typee in ...