"The Scarlett Letter" Hildegarde Hawthorne & Mark Van Doren Signed Program COA

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Hildegarde Hawthorne
(1871-1952) was a writer of supernatural and ghost stories, a poet and biographer. Born on September 25, 1871, in New York City, Hildegarde Hawthorne was the granddaughter of
Nathaniel Hawthorne
(1804-1864) and daughter of
Julian Hawthorne
(1846-1934).
At age sixteen Hildegarde began selling articles to the children's magazine
St. Nicholas
. Her supernatural short story "Perdita," was published in the March 1897
Harper's Magazine
. She wrote biographies of Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
,
Ralph Waldo Emerson
,
Henry David Thoreau
, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Mark Van Doren
(June 13, 1894 – December 10, 1972) was an American poet, writer and critic. He was a scholar and a professor of English at
Columbia University
for nearly 40 years, where he inspired a generation of influential writers and thinkers including
Thomas Merton
,
Robert Lax
,
John Berryman
,
Whittaker Chambers
, and
Beat Generation
writers such as
Allen Ginsberg
and
Jack Kerouac
. He was
literary editor
of
The Nation
, in
New York City
(1924–1928), and its film critic, 1935 to 1938.
He won the
1940
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
for
Collected Poems 1922–1938
. Amongst his other notable works, many published in
The Kenyon Review
, include a collaboration with brother
Carl Van Doren
,
American and British Literature since 1890
(1939); critical studies,
The Poetry of John Dryden
(1920),
Shakespeare
(1939),
The Noble Voice
(1945) and
Nathaniel Hawthorne
(1949); collections of poems including
Jonathan Gentry
(1931); stories; and the verse play
The Last Days of Lincoln
(1959).