Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804 CE–1864 CE · Novelist · Salem, Massachusetts
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short-story writer of the antebellum period. Born in Salem, Massachusetts, into a long-established Puritan family, he graduated from Bowdoin College and spent years writing in relative seclusion before publishing tales such as "Young Goodman Brown" and the collection "Twice-Told Tales." His major novels include "The Scarlet Letter" (1850) and "The House of the Seven Gables" (1851). His work often examines guilt, sin, and the moral legacy of New England Puritanism. He was associated with contemporaries in Concord and served as United States consul at Liverpool from 1853 to 1857. He then lived in Italy (Rome and Florence, 1858-1859), where he conceived and drafted "The Marble Faun" (1860), before returning to Concord and The Wayside. He died in 1864 in Plymouth, New Hampshire.
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