Class of: 1975

Kate Dike Blair

Kate Dike Blair (CAS’75) of Concord, Mass., published The Hawthorne Inheritance (Sunbury Press, 2021), a historical novel exploring the death of author Nathaniel Hawthorne’s younger sister Louisa in the 1852 Henry Clay steamboat disaster. Kate’s great-great-great-granduncle John Dike, Louisa’s traveling companion, survived. John Stephens Dike, Kate’s cousin six times removed, narrates the tale and solves the mystery of Louisa’s and John’s fates.

From the Fall 2022 issue.