No one gets into the head of dead writers quite like Erika Robuck. After tackling the lives of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edna St. Vincent Millay in previous books, the Annapolis ...

NORTH ADAMS — In July 1838, Nathaniel Hawthorne struck out on the road, traveling west. His destination? North Adams. He arrived in North Adams — then the north village of Adams, as the communities ...

In the spring of 1853 Hawthorne received from his life-long friend, President Pierce, the appointment of United States Consul at Liverpool, then one of the most lucrative places in the gift of the ...

Every generation of high school freshmen scrawls "symbol" and "character development" in the margins of "The Scarlet Letter" and then forgets Nathaniel Hawthorne. We don't hold the author in our ...

In her new young-adult fiction novel “Red,” out Jan. 30, Boston-area author Annie Cardi contends with reproductive rights and spirituality. The story is a retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic ...

THE MEMOIRS OF JULIAN HAWTHORNE —Edited by Edith Garrigues Hawthorne—Macmillan ($2.50). Nathaniel Hawthorne and his bluestocking wife had three children, Una, Julian and Rose. Una became an Angelican ...