Step back in time to the golden age of American literature with James T. Fields' Yesterdays with Authors. A literary memoir of the mid-19th century, this book offers a behind-the-scenes look at the lives and work of some of America's most celebrated writers - from Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Part memoir, part literary criticism, this book is a fascinating portrait of a pivotal moment in American literature and culture.

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