Baym, Nina. The Shape of Hawthorne's Career. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1976.
Herbert, T. Walter. Dearest Beloved: The Hawthornes and the Making of the Middle-Class Family. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993.
Mellow, James R. Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.
Miller, Edwin Haviland. Salem Is My Dwelling Place: A Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1991.
Stewart, Randall. Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Biography. New Haven: Yale UP, 1948.
Turner, Arlin. Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Biography. New York: Oxford UP, 1980.
Wagenknecht, Edward C. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Man, His Tales and Romances. New York: Oxford UP, 1982.
Wineapple, Brenda. Hawthorne. New YorkL Knopf, 2004.
Beebe, Maurice, and Jack Hardie. "Hawthorne Checklist." Studies in the Novel 2 (1970): 519-88.
Blair, Walter. "Nathaniel Hawthorne." Eight American Authors: A Review of Research and Criticism. Ed. James Woodress. New York: Norton, 1971.
Clark, C.E. Frazier, Jr. Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Descriptive Bibliography. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1978.
Gale, Robert L. A Nathaniel Hawthorne Encyclopedia. New York: Greenwood, 1991.
Hardie, Jack. "Criticism of Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Selected Checklist." Studies in the Novel 2 (1970): 519-87.
Jones, Buford. A Checklist of Hawthorne Criticism, 1951-1966. Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1967.
Jones, Buford. "Hawthorne Studies: The Seventies." Studies in the Novel 2 (Winter 1980).
Ricks, Beatrice, Joseph D. Adams, and Jack O. Hazlerig, eds. Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Reference Bibliography. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1972.
Scharnhorst, Gary. Nathaniel Hawthorne: An Annotated Bibliography of Comment and Criticism Before 1900. 1988.
See also the MLA Online Bibliography (through the UMD Library ), American Literary Scholarship, an annual annotated review published by Duke University Press, and the annual bibliography in the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review.