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 BOOK OF PORTRAITURE BY STEVE TOMASULA TALLAHASSEE. FL: FC2. 324 PAGES. $18. This novel is a grand historical account of how the act of representing others always includes a representation of the self. It begins with Moses and ends with bio art....
JOHN KOBAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT AWARD ** (VERY GOOD) National Portrait Gallery, WC2 CRITERIA for the Kobal photographic portrait award are purposefully vague, defined as "new and innovative approaches to an established photographic genre". Indeed, the winning entry by Leon Steele records only the...
