Julian Hawthorne - The Life of a Prodigal Son

Gary Scharnhorst is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico and the author of Kate Field: The Many Lives of a Nineteenth-Century American Journalist.

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Gary Scharnhorst

Summary

Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934), Nathaniel Hawthorne's only son, lived a long and influential life marked by bad circumstances and worse choices. Raised among luminaries such as Thoreau, Emerson, and the Beecher family, Julian became a promising novelist in his twenties, but his writing soon devolved into mediocrity.

Product details

• Authors: Gary Scharnhorst
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.2014
• EAN: 9780252038341
• ISBN: 978-0-252-03834-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies