Hawthorne As Viewed by His Contemporaries
To celebrate the bicentennial of author Nathaniel Hawthorne’s birth, Minute Man National Visitors Center in Lexington, Massachusetts, held a… read more
To celebrate the bicentennial of author Nathaniel Hawthorne’s birth, Minute Man National Visitors Center in Lexington, Massachusetts, held a panel discussion about Hawthorne as part of the Concord Festival of Authors. The panelists played the parts of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s writing contemporaries and his family members, describing happenings and answering audience members' questions in the manner of the person portrayed. Each of them is also a biographer of his or her subject. Laurence Buell, the author of Emerson, was Ralph Waldo Emerson. Megan. Marshal, the author of The Peabody Sisters, portrayed the Peabody sisters. Laurie Robertson-Lorant, author of Melville: A Biography was Herman Melville. Charles Calhoun, author of Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. close
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