1. Hawthorne - Noun
2. Hawthorne - Proper noun
United States writer of novels and short stories mostly on moral themes (1804-1864)
Source: WordNetPoe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens. Leslie Stephen
I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melville still sit on those green hills. The worship of Mammon is also somewhat lessened there by the spirit of irony. I don't get hay fever in New England either. John Updike
Nathaniel Hawthorne says, "Easy reading is damn hard writing.” I try to pull the language into such a sharpness that it jumps off the page. It must look easy, but it takes me forever to get it to look so easy. Maya Angelou
Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods. Alice Hoffman
One thing we know about incentives is you can't incent a dead person. No matter what we do, Hawthorne will not produce any more works, [even if] we can give him all the money in the world. Lawrence Lessig
I wanted to stop all that because I couldn't stand hearing my little kid ask why I didn't stay home. I had been living at the Hawthorne Inn for fourteen months... If it wasn't for him, I'd have said, To hell with you fellows. We'll shoot it out. Al Capone