Julian Hawthorne was an American writer and journalist born in Boston in 1846. He was the son of the renowned novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody. Throughout his career, Hawthorne worked across multiple literary forms and genres, establishing himself as a prolific author. His body of work encompassed poems, novels, short stories, mysteries and detective fiction, essays, travel books, biographies, and histories. This range of output reflected both his versatility as a writer and the varied interests he pursued during his lifetime. He died in San Francisco in 1934.