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A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST EMERGES ON LITERARY TOUR SALEM CELEBRATES HAWTHORNE

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20040425
Author:Elizabeth Ross Globe Correspondent

Nathaniel Hawthorne was never shy about expressing his feelings toward his native Salem. "I detest this town so much that I hate to go into the streets or to have the people see me. Anywhere else I shall at once be another man," he once wrote to a friend. In a letter to his wife, he grumbled, "Nothing makes me wonder more than that I found it possible to write all my tales in this same region of sleepy- head and stupidity."

And yet he did. Hawthorne wrote plenty of tales in Salem, and about Salem. The city shaped his identity and his work, providing inspiration for stories such as "The House ...

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