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　　Handsome, reserved, almost frighteningly aloof until he was

approached, then playful, cordial, Nathaniel Hawthorne was as

mercurial and double-edged as his writing. “Deep as Dante,” Herman

Melville said.

Hawthorne himself declared that he was not “one of those

supremely hospitable people who serve up their own hearts,

delicately fried, with brain sauce, as a tidbit” for the public.

Yet those who knew him best often took the opposite position. “He

always puts himself in his books,” said his sister-in-law Mary

Mann, “he cannot help it.” His life, like his work, was

extraordinary, a play of light and shadow.

In this major new biography of Hawthorne, the first in more than

a decade, Brenda Wineapple, acclaimed biographer of Janet Flanner

and Gertrude and Leo Stein (“Luminous”–Richard Howard), brings him

brilliantly alive: an exquisite writer who shoveled dung in an

attempt to found a new utopia at Brook Farm and then excoriated the

community (or his attraction to it) in caustic satire; the

confidant of Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president of the United

States and arguably one of its worst; friend to Emerson and Thoreau

and Melville who, unlike them, made fun of Abraham Lincoln and who,

also unlike them, wrote compellingly of women, deeply identifying

with them–he was the first major American writer to create erotic

female characters. Those vibrant, independent women continue to

haunt the imagination, although Hawthorne often punishes,

humiliates, or kills them, as if exorcising that which

enthralls.

Here is the man rooted in Salem, Massachusetts, of an old

pre-Revolutionary family, reared partly in the wilds of western

Maine, then schooled along with Longfellow at Bowdoin College. Here

are his idyllic marriage to the youngest and prettiest of the

Peabody sisters and his longtime friendships, including with

Margaret Fuller, the notorious feminist writer and

intellectual.

Here too is Hawthorne at the end of his days, revered as a

genius, but considered as well to be an embarrassing puzzle by the

Boston intelligentsia, isolated by fiercely held political

loyalties that placed him against the Civil War and the currents of

his time.

Brenda Wineapple navigates the high tides and chill undercurrents

of Hawthorne’s fascinating life and work with clarity, nuance, and

insight. The novels and tales, the incidental writings, travel

notes and children’s books, letters and diaries reverberate in this

biography, which both charts and protects the dark unknowable core

that is quintessentially Hawthorne. In him, the quest of his

generation for an authentically American voice bears disquieting

fruit.

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　　Brenda Wineapple is author of the award-winning Hawthorne:

A Life; Genêt: A Biography of Janet Flanner, and

Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein. She is also

the editor of the Selected Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier in the

American Poets Series (Library of America.) Her essays, articles

and reviews have appeared in many publications, among them The

American Scholar, The New York Times Book Review, Parnassus,

Poetry, and The Nation. A Guggenheim fellow, a fellow of the

American Council of Learned Societies, and twice of the National

Endowment, she teaches in the MFA programs at Columbia University

and The New School and lives in New York City.

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Handsome, reserved, almost frighteningly aloof until he was approached, then playful, cordial, Nathaniel Hawthorne was as mercurial and double-edged as his writing. “Deep as Dante,” Herman Melville said.

Hawthorne himself declared that he was not “one of those supremely hospitable people who serve up their own hearts, delicately fried, with brain sauce, as a tidbit” for the public. Yet those who knew him best often took the opposite position. “He always puts himself in his books,” said his sister-in-law Mary Mann, “he cannot help it.” His life, like his work, was extraordinary, a play of light and shadow.

In this major new biography of Hawthorne, the first in more than a decade, Brenda Wineapple, acclaimed biographer of Janet Flanner and Gertrude and Leo Stein (“Luminous”–Richard Howard), brings him brilliantly alive: an exquisite writer who shoveled dung in an attempt to found a new utopia at Brook Farm and then excoriated the community (or his attraction to it) in caustic satire; the confidant of Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president of the United States and arguably one of its worst; friend to Emerson and Thoreau and Melville who, unlike them, made fun of Abraham Lincoln and who, also unlike them, wrote compellingly of women, deeply identifying with them–he was the first major American writer to create erotic female characters. Those vibrant, independent women continue to haunt the imagination, although Hawthorne often punishes, humiliates, or kills them, as if exorcising that which enthralls.

Here is the man rooted in Salem, Massachusetts, of an old pre-Revolutionary family, reared partly in the wilds of western Maine, then schooled along with Longfellow at Bowdoin College. Here are his idyllic marriage to the youngest and prettiest of the Peabody sisters and his longtime friendships, including with Margaret Fuller, the notorious feminist writer and intellectual.

Here too is Hawthorne at the end of his days, revered as a genius, but considered as well to be an embarrassing puzzle by the Boston intelligentsia, isolated by fiercely held political loyalties that placed him against the Civil War and the currents of his time.

Brenda Wineapple navigates the high tides and chill undercurrents of Hawthorne’s fascinating life and work with clarity, nuance, and insight. The novels and tales, the incidental writings, travel notes and children’s books, letters and diaries reverberate in this biography, which both charts and protects the dark unknowable core that is quintessentially Hawthorne. In him, the quest of his generation for an authentically American voice bears disquieting fruit.