HAWTHORNE IN HIS OWN TIME A BIOGRAPHICAL CHRONICLE OF HIS LIFE, DRAWN FROM RECOLLECTIONS, INTERVIEWS, AND MEMOIRS BY FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND ASSOCIATES Edited by Ronald A. Bosco & Jillmarie Murphy

This first collection of personal reminiscences by those who knew Hawthorne intimately or knew about him through reliable secondary sources provides the real human history behind the successful writer. Better than a biography, it provides canny firsthand accounts of an author often considered unknowable.