Nathaniel Hawthorne, American storyteller / Whitelaw, Nancy

A biography of American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, recounting the many obstacles he faced in his struggle to become a successful writer and telling of his New England childhood, marriage to Sophia, and eventual death in 1864.

Profiles the nineteenth-century American author of such works as "The Scarlet Letter" and "The House of Seven Gables.".