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 ...

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 ...

What Nathaniel Hawthorne story did Batman villain Poison Ivy likely draw inspiration from? Poison Ivy has only ever appeared in one live-action Batman film, played by Uma Thurman. While she fought the ...

ABSTRACT On June 28, 1832, Nathaniel Hawthorne penned a letter to Franklin Pierce describing plans for a Northern tour through New York into Canada, a trip that he was forced to postpone due to the ...

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 ...

Historian Brenda Wineapple has authored a number of intriguing books about 19th century American writers and social processes in particular. We first encountered her work in the process of writing ...

The remains of the wife and daughter of 19th-century author Nathaniel Hawthorne have been removed from their graves in England and re-interred alongside his grave in Concord, Mass. Although burials ...