David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales

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Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934) was an American writer and journalist, the son of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody. He wrote numerous poems, novels, short stories, mystery/detective fiction, essays, travel books, biographies and histories. As a journalist he reported on the Indian Famine for Cosmopolitan magazine, and the Spanish- American War for the New York Journal. He entered Harvard in 1863, but did not graduate. He studied civil engineering in America and Germany, was engineer in the New York City Dock Department under General McClellan (1870-72), spent 10 years abroad, and on his return edited his father's unfinished Dr. Grimshawe's Secret (1883). While in Europe he wrote the novels: Bressant (1873), Idolatry (1874), Garth (1874), Archibald Malmaison (1879) and Sebastian Strome (1880). Hawthorne also wrote a critique of his father's novel The Scarlet Letter that was published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1886. In 1889 there were reports that Hawthorne was one of several writers who had, under the name of "Arthur Richmond, " published in the North American Review devastating attacks on President Grover Cleveland and other leading Americans.
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