Hawthorne: A Life by Brenda WineappleISBN: 9780812972917
Publication Date: 2004-06-29
In this major new biography of Hawthorne, the first in more than a decade, Brenda Wineapple brings him brilliantly alive: an exquisite writer who shoveled dung in an attempt to found a new utopia at Brook Farm and then excoriated the community in caustic satire; the confidant of Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president of the United States and arguably one of its worst; friend to Emerson and Thoreau and Melville who, unlike them, made fun of Abraham Lincoln and who, also unlike them, wrote compellingly of women.