Julian Hawthorne: The Life of a Prodigal Son

by Gary Scharnhorst

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. What talent the young Hawthorne had was spent chasing across the changing literary and publishing landscapes of the period in search of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252038347
• ISBN13: 9780252038341
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"