Hawthorne Books is an

independent publisher A small press is a publisher with annual sales below a certain level or below a certain number of titles published. The terms "indie publisher" and "independent press" and others are sometimes used interchangeably. Independent press is general ...

founded in 2001 in

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, U.S., specializing in literary fiction and creative nonfiction original trade paperbacks.

Authors

Kristen Wiig Kristen Carroll Wiig (; born August 22, 1973) is an American actress, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. Born in Canandaigua, New York, she was raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Rochester, New York. She moved to Los Angeles, where she joi ...

has optioned the film rights for Monica Drake's ''Clown Girl''. *

Lidia Yuknavitch Lidia Yuknavitch ( ; born June 18, 1963) is an American writer, teacher and editor based in Oregon. She is the author of the memoir ''The Chronology of Water'', and the novels ''The Small Backs of Children,'' '' Dora: A Headcase,'' and ''The Boo ...

, author of ''The Chronology of Water'', won the 2012 PNBA Award and is shortlisted for the 2012

Oregon Book Award The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually by Literary Arts to honor the "state’s finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, graphic literature, drama, literary nonfiction, and literature for young readers. ...

. * Frank Meeink of ''Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead'' was featured on WHYY's ''

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''. * Hawthorne's title ''The Well and The Mine'' by Gin Phillips won her the 2008 Barnes & Noble Discover Award.

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bought the rights to ''The Well and The Mine'' shortly after. * Scott Nadelson won the Oregon Book Award and the Great Lakes Colleges Association Award for ''Saving Stanley'' in 2004. * Hawthorne's rediscovery series celebrates American writers by bringing back to print titles by authors such as

Richard Wiley Richard Wiley (born November 19, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer whose first novel, ''Soldiers in Hiding (novel), Soldiers in Hiding'' won the 1987 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He has published five other novels and a numbe ...

Lynne Sharon Schwartz Lynne Sharon Schwartz (born March 19, 1939) is an American prose and poetry writer. Biography Schwartz grew up in Brooklyn, the second of three children of Jack M. Sharon, a lawyer and accountant, and Sarah Slatus Sharon; she married Harry Schwa ...

Tom Spanbauer Tom Spanbauer (born 1946) is an American writer whose work often explores issues of sexuality, race, and the ties that bind disparate people together. Raised in Idaho, Spanbauer has lived in Kenya and across the United States. He lives in Portla ...

and Toby Olson. * Introductions to Hawthorne Books' writers are often written by esteemed authors including

Wole Soyinka Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka (Yoruba: ''Akínwándé Olúwọlé Babátúndé Ṣóyíinká''; born 13 July 1934), known as Wole Soyinka (), is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language. He was awarded t ...

Ursula Hegi Ursula Hegi (born May 23, 1946) is a German-born American writer. She is currently an instructor in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton. She was born Ursula Koch in 1946 in Düsseldorf, Germany, a city that was heavily bombed during World ...

Chuck Palahniuk Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk (; born February 21, 1962) is an American freelance journalist and novelist who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He has published 19 novels, three nonfiction books, two graphic novels, and two adul ...

, A. M. Homes,

Robert Coover Robert Lowell Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American novelist, short story writer, and T.B. Stowell Professor Emeritus in Literary Arts at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction. Background C ...

Fannie Flagg Fannie Flagg (born Patricia Neal; September 21, 1944) is an American actress, comedian and author. She is best known as a semi-regular panelist on the 1973–1982 versions of the game show ''Match Game'' and for the 1987 novel ''Fried Green Toma ...

and

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