Posted on May 7, 2004

Brenda Wineapple, the Doris Zemurray Stone Professor in
Modern Literary and Historical Studies, is to receive this week the Boston
Author Club's Julia Ward Howe Prize for her biography Hawthorne: A Life. The Boston Authors Club is the
oldest continuous authors group in the United
States, founded in 1899 by Julia Ward Howe
(“Battle Hymn of the Republic”) and journalists Helen Winslow and
Thomas Higginson. Members have included Mark Twain, Robert Frost, Edward
Everett Hale, Richard Henry Dana, Booth Tarkington, David McCord, Edward
Arlington Robinson, Willa Cather, John McAleer and
three Massachusetts governors.
Other finalists for the Julia Ward Howe Prize were James Carroll (Secret Father, Houghton Mifflin) and
Stephen Puleo (Dark Tide, Beacon
Press).