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Start by marking Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times as Want to Read . Winner of the 1983 National Book Award, James R. Mellow's biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne places this great American writer in the midst of the literary and cultural turmoil of the early Republic.

Start by marking Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read. Mellow draws on Hawthorne's letters and notebooks, as well as on perceptive readings of his fiction, in recreating the details of Hawthorne's life: the long apprenticeship of th Winner of the 1983 National Book Award, James R.

The author of Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times, James R. Mellow, comes well suited to the task of interpreting a major American writer’s life, not only having had considerable experience as a literary critic for The New York. Mellow, comes well suited to the task of interpreting a major American writer’s life, not only having had considerable experience as a literary critic for The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The New Republic, Commonweal, and other publications, but also having written the acclaimed biography, Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company . At present, he is writing a life of Hawthorne’s friend, Margaret Fuller.

With his next biography, ''Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times,'' he moved further back in America's literary past. Alfred Kazin called the work a ''charming and very full period piece.

In his literary judgments Mellow is consistently plausible, partly because he sticks close to the critical consensus, .  . in finding ""Young Goodman Brown"" a minor masterpiece and The Marble Faun an interesting failure.

Mellow, James R. Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times (Boston, 1980). Morgan, Ellen E. The Veiled Lady: The Secret Love of Miles Coverdale, Nathaniel Hawthorne Journal (1971), 169-81. Hawthorne’s Mad Scientists: Pseudoscience and Social Science in Nineteenth-Century Life and Letters (Hamden, Conn. A Note on The Blithedale Romance, or ‘Call him Fauntleroy,’ journal of American Studies, 10 (1976), 103-4.

James R. Mellow was before his death in 1998 an acclaimed biographer whose other books include Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company, Invented Lives: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, and Hemingway. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, and Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences. Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times.

Bibliographic Details. Title: NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE IN HIS TIMES. Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. Publication Date: 1998. James R. Visit Seller's Storefront.

Although Hawthorne himself felt the story was not memorable, esteemed authors like Herman Melville, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, and even Stephen King have praised it as one of his best works

Although Hawthorne himself felt the story was not memorable, esteemed authors like Herman Melville, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, and even Stephen King have praised it as one of his best works. Plot Summary: In the interval of silence he stole forward until the light glared full upon his eyes.

Author Nathaniel Hawthorne is best known for his novels 'The Scarlet Letter' and 'The House of Seven Gables . Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American short story writer and novelist.

Author Nathaniel Hawthorne is best known for his novels 'The Scarlet Letter' and 'The House of Seven Gables,' and also wrote many short stories. Who Was Nathaniel Hawthorne? Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American short story writer and novelist. His short stories include "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" (1832), "Roger Malvin's Burial" (1832), "Young Goodman Brown" (1835) and the collection Twice-Told Tales. He is best known for his novels The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851)

Mellow, James R. 1980. Opera ab, de Nathaniel Hawthorne in bibliothecis (in catalogo WorldCat). Henry James's book-length study, Hawthorne (1879). Bostoniae: Houghton Mifflin Company. Arminii Melville memoria, "Hawthorne and His Mosses" (1851). Second copy at Project Gutenberg. Hawthorne Family Papers, ca.