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Northshore October 2025
Writers, like the rest of us, keep secrets — and Nathaniel Hawthorne was no exception. He burned his wife Sofia’s love letters to him and he, in turn, asked his close friend Herman Melville to burn the letters he wrote to Melville. He protected his privacy. Had Hawthorne been living today, he would not likely post to Facebook. It’s no surprise that it took author Mark Beauregard six years to research Melville and Hawthorne’s work and archives to reach a point where he was ready to write his newly published historical novel, “The Whale: A Love Story.” Secrets rarely reside on the surface of things and sto
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