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George Parsons Lathrop
1851–1898
A poet, novelist, and editor from the late 19th century, he moved through the literary world of Boston and New York and became known for both his own writing and his close connection to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s family. His career ranged from magazine and newspaper work to fiction, poetry, and drama, with a life marked by ambition, literary friendships, and personal loss.
6 Audiobooks
Dreams and Days: Poems
by George Parsons Lathrop
The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Appendix to Volume XII: Tales, Sketches, and other Papers by Nathaniel Hawthorne with a Biographical Sketch by George Parsons Lathrop
by George Parsons Lathrop
Rose and Roof-Tree — Poems
by George Parsons Lathrop
Spanish Vistas
by George Parsons Lathrop
A Study of Hawthorne
by George Parsons Lathrop
True, and Other Stories
by George Parsons Lathrop
About the author
Born near Honolulu on August 25, 1851, George Parsons Lathrop became an American poet and prose writer who made literature his profession. He worked as an assistant editor of The Atlantic Monthly from 1875 to 1877 and later edited the Boston Courier from 1877 to 1879.
Lathrop wrote in several forms, including novels, poetry, and plays, and he was part of the literary culture of his time in both Boston and New York. He is also remembered for marrying Rose Hawthorne, daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, which linked his life closely with one of America’s most famous literary families.
He died in 1898. Though he is not as widely read today as some of his contemporaries, he remains an interesting figure of the American literary scene of the Gilded Age: a working man of letters whose career crossed journalism, creative writing, and the world of major magazines and newspapers.