Nathan Haskell Dole was an American editor, translator, and author. A writer and journalist in Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, he translated many of the works of Leo Tolstoy and books of other Russians; novels of the Spaniard Armando Palacio Valdés (1886–90); a variety of works from the French and Italian.
Nathaniel Hawthorne fue un novelista y cuentista estadounidense conocido por sus numerosas historias de ficción gótica y romanticismo oscuro. Publicó su primera obra, una novela titulada Fanshawe, en 1828. Más tarde trató de quitarla de su catálogo, sintiendo que no era igual al estándar de su trabajo posterior. Publicó varios cuentos cortos en periódicos, que recogió en 1837 como Twice-Told Tales. Al año siguiente, se comprometió con Sophia Peabody. Trabajó en la aduana de Boston y se unió a Brook Farm, una comunidad trascendentalista, antes de casarse con Peabody en 1842. La pareja se trasladó a The Old Manse en Concord, Massachusetts, luego a Salem, Berkshires y luego a The Wayside en Concord. Una de sus obras más notables, La letra escarlata, fue publicada en 1850, seguida de una sucesión de otras novelas. Un nombramiento político como cónsul llevó a Hawthorne y a su familia a Europa antes de su regreso a Concord en 1860.
Nathaniel Parker Willis, also known as N. P. Willis, was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became the highest-paid magazine writer of his day. His brother was the composer Richard Storrs Willis and his sister Sara wrote under the name Fanny Fern. Harriet Jacobs wrote her autobiography while being employed as his children's nurse.
Neith Boyce was an American novelist, journalist, and theatre artist. Much of Boyce’s earlier work was published with help from her parents, Mary and Henry Harrison Boyce. Neith Boyce later co-founded the Provincetown Players alongside Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook, her husband Hutchins Hapgood, and others. Boyce worked with the Provincetown Players in several capacities that included directing, performing, hosting productions in her home, and having all four of her plays produced. Boyce’s plays featured plots that focused on women’s sexuality, personal relationships, and agency.
Elizabeth Cochran Seaman, better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist, who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, and an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within. She was a pioneer in her field and launched a new kind of investigative journalism.
