Hawthorne Books is an independent publisher founded in 2001 in Portland, Oregon, U.S., specializing in literary fiction and creative nonfiction original trade paperbacks.

Authors

• Kristen Wiig has optioned the film rights for Monica Drake's Clown Girl.^[1]
• Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water, won the 2012 PNBA Award^[2] and is shortlisted for the 2012 Oregon Book Award.^[3]
• Frank Meeink of Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead was featured on WHYY's Fresh Air.^[4]
• Hawthorne's title The Well and The Mine by Gin Phillips won her the 2008 Barnes & Noble Discover Award.^[5] Penguin Press bought the rights to The Well and The Mine shortly after.^[6]
• Scott Nadelson won the Oregon Book Award^[7] and the Great Lakes Colleges Association Award for Saving Stanley in 2004.^[8]
• Hawthorne's rediscovery series celebrates American writers by bringing back to print titles by authors such as Richard Wiley, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Tom Spanbauer and Toby Olson.^[9]
• Introductions to Hawthorne Books' writers are often written by esteemed authors including Wole Soyinka, Ursula Hegi, Chuck Palahniuk, A. M. Homes, Robert Coover, Fannie Flagg and Robin Givens.^[10]