Up for auction a RARE! "The Scarlett Letter" Hildegarde Hawthorne & Mark Van Doren Signed Program. This is the only known copy of this program EVER brought to auction. 

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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).