Although Nathaniel Hawthorne called himself "the obscurest man in American letters," his achievements in fiction, both as short-story writer and novelist, offer models fashioned too well for contemporary and later writers to ignore. Even though fame was...
When Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on our most patriotic holiday in 1804, his ancestral roots were already deeply planted in New England. Writing in The Scarlet Letter (1850) of his sentimental affection for the town of his birth,...
In sketches, tales, and romances published in the second third of the nineteenth century, Nathaniel Hawthorne chose mainly American materials, drawing especially on the history of colonial New England and his native Salem in the time of his early America...
The novel Fanshawe was the first published work by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and published anonymously in 1828. It was based on his experiences at Bowdoin College in the early 1820s. He had written successful short stories before, but this was his first...
David Doman, a Maryland-based physician who teaches medicine at George Washington University, has chosen an unusual form to state his case for universal health care coverage: an essentially self- published novel. In "Heartbeat," Doman weaves the personal stories of uninsured Americans into a...
Now that the Adventures of Ollie North are off the air, it's time at last to turn off the tube and head to the hammock for a rendezvous with a nice, stable book or two. No charging up the hills, please. The problem...
