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A Black Veil.("Hawthorne")(Book Review)

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From: World and I
Date: 20040501
Author:Simon, Linda

Linda Simon is professor of literature at Skidmore College and a frequent contributor to The World & I.

Biographer Brenda Wineapple confronts the mystery that was Nathaniel Hawthorne.

HAWTHORNE

Brenda Wineapple

New York: Knopf, 2003

509 pp., $30.00

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on July 4, 1804, twenty-eight years after America painfully and defiantly wrested itself from Great Britain. His family was among the most notable in Salem, where his great-grandfather, famous for persecuting such infidels as Quakers, had served as a judge ...

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