Hildegarde Hawthorne (September 25, 1871 – December 10, 1952) was an American writer of supernatural and ghost stories, a poet and biographer.

[3] At age sixteen Hildegarde began selling articles to the children's magazine St. Nicholas.

Her supernatural short story "Perdita," was published in the March 1897 Harper's Magazine.

[4] She wrote biographies of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Paine, Matthew Fontaine Maury, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.[1] Hawthorne also wrote travel narratives, including Old Seaport Towns of New England (1916),[5] Rambles in Old College Towns (1917),[6] Corsica: The Surprising Island (1926),[7] Romantic Cities of California (1939),[8] and Williamsburg, Old and New (1941).

[11] A collection of ghost stories by Hawthorne, The Faded Garden, was published in 1985, edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson.