Do you remember reading in school about Hester Prynne and the red “A” for “adultery” she was forced to wear? Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), whose novel “The Scarlet Letter” was published 170 years ...

Six years ago, President Bush’s bioethics council opened its inaugural meeting with a discussion of The Birth-Mark , a Nathaniel Hawthorne short story. Council member Bill May summarized the plot , in ...

The space that Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) occupies in American literature has fluctuated. It has never fallen to nothing, but in some decades his reputation was that of only slightly more than a ...

Nearly two centuries after Nathaniel Hawthorne’s graduation from Bowdoin College in 1825, the author’s work remains very much in the spotlight and has provided inspiration for such contemporary ...