Subjects: PS, Novelists, American -- 19th century -- Biography, Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Friends and associates, I
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's circle included Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Henry James, Robert Browning, Julia Ward Howe, and President Franklin Pierce. This lively son's-eye-view, published in 1884, portrays the up-and-down life, work, and travels of a literary genius and his friends and associates in a time of intellectual ferment and social upheaval.