The Life of the Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

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One of America's greatest writers, Nathaniel Hawthorne explored the most fundamental aspects of the human condition. His profound insights into themes such as good and evil, guilt and penitence, sin and sexuality, religious hypocrisy, and national identity continue to resonate in the present day. The Life of the Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne paints a detailed portrait of the man and artist, providing rich insights into Hawthorne's life, writings, thoughts, and ideas. Drawing from his nearly five decades of experience reading, studying, and teaching Hawthorne, author Dale Salwak challenges presumptions of Hawthorne as reclusive, eccentric, and ultimately unknowable. Exhaustive primary research into published and unpublished notebooks, tales, and personal letters reveals a more approachable Hawthorne, a man with a great capacity for warmth and enthusiasm. Salwak offers new perspectives on topics such as the influence of Sophia Hawthorne on her husband's work, theories about a homoerotic relationship between Hawthorne and Herman Melville, Hawthorne's relevance in contemporary literary education, and more. The first major Hawthorne biography to be published in more than twenty years, The Life of the Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne is essential reading for scholars, teachers, college students, and general readers with interest in the life and work of this canonical nineteenth-century writer.