Woodberry draws on Hawthorne’s notebooks and the memoirs of his family to tell the life of the Salem writer. Chapters cover his early years, his long seclusion in the chamber under the eaves, work as a customs weigher and gauger and at Brook Farm, married life at the Old Manse, the writing of The Scarlet Letter and the later years.
A careful critical biography from the American Men of Letters series. Download the free EPUB.