- Pictured on a 20¢ US commemorative postage stamp issued in his honor, 8 July 1983.
- Son Julian Hawthorne also became a writer and recorded the biography of his parents' life.
- Grandfather to children's biography writer and poet Hildegarde Hawthorne, daughter of Julian Hawthorne-Oskison (1871-1934).
- Children: Una Hawthorne (1844-1877) Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934) Rose Hawthorne (1851-1926)
- Hawthorne added the 'w' to his last name out of guilt and shame due to the fact that his ancestor was Judge Hathorne at the famous Salem Witch Trials.
- He was a great influence on author Herman Melville, who patterned his novel "Moby Dick" on Hawthorne's moralistic writings.
- Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900 (inaugural election).
- Was brother-in-law of education activist Horace Mann.
- Hawthorne was from New England.
- One of the greatest fiction writers in American literature, he is best known for "The Scarlet Letter" (1850) and "The House of the Seven Gables" (1851).
- "Young Goodman Brown" is dramatized for the music video of Brandon Flowers' song "Can't deny my Love".
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