Hildegarde Hawthorne
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).[1]
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.[2] She wrote biographies of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau.