Hawthorne Books is a literary press located in Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...

. It was founded by Rhonda Hughes and Kate Sage in 2001.

The press publishes literary fiction

Fiction

Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical,...

 and nonfiction titles. It also reissues award-winning out of print books by living American writers, repackaging those titles with new introductions by notable writers. Some examples from this series are: Leaving Brooklyn by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Lynne Sharon Schwartz is a contemporary American writer.She grew up in Brooklyn, the second of three children of Jack M. Sharon, a lawyer and accountant, and Sarah Slatus Sharon; she married Harry Schwartz in 1957. She holds a BA from Barnard College, an MA from Bryn Mawr, and started work on a...

, introduction by Ursula Hegi

Ursula Hegi

Ursula Hegi is a German-born American writer.She was born Ursula Koch in 1946 in Düsseldorf, Germany, a city that was heavily bombed during World War II. Her perception growing up was that the war was avoided as a topic of discussion despite its evidence everywhere, and The Holocaust was a...

, Soldiers in Hiding by Richard Wiley

Richard Wiley

Richard Wiley is an American novelist and short story writer whose first novel, Soldiers in Hiding won the 1987 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He has published five other novels and a number of short stories ....

, introduction by Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

-winner Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka

Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, where he was recognised as a man "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence", and became the first African in Africa and...

, and Tom Spanbauer

Tom Spanbauer

-Biography:He studied creative writing with Gordon Lish at Columbia University. As a gay writer, he has explored issues of race, of sexual identity, of how we make a family for ourselves in order to surmount the limitations of the families into which we are born...

's Faraway Places, introduction by AM Homes.

One of Hawthorne Books' publications, Monica Drake

Monica Drake

Monica Drake is an American fiction writer known for her novel, Clown Girl. She is a graduate of the University of Arizona's MFA program in creative writing...

's debut novel Clown Girl, was named as a best book of the year by Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk

Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk is an American transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist. He is best known for the award-winning novel Fight Club, which was later made into a film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter...

 in the January 2008 issue of Playboy Magazine. The book is also a finalist for a 2007 Oregon Book Award

Oregon Book Award

The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually by Literary Arts, Inc. for "the finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, drama and young readers literature." -History:...

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External links

• Hawthorne Books' http://www.hawthornebooks.com website.
• Publishers Weekly http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6383595.html
• Entertainment Weekly http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20012060,00.html
• Oregon Book Awards http://www.literary-arts.org/index.php?article=699