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Died: May 19, 1864. Nathaniel Hawthorne, born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts was an American short story writer and romance novelist who experimented with a broad range of styles and genres. He is best known for his short stories and two widely read novels: The Scarlet Letter (mid-March 1850) and The House of Seven Gables (1851).
Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was a nineteenth-century American novelist and short story writer. He is recognized, with his close contemporaries Herman Melville and Walt Whitman , as a key figure in the development of a distinctly American literature.
Nathaniel Hawthorne was a nineteenth-century American short story writer, novelist, and darkly romantic. He works primarily with history, religion, and morality. The writings of Hawthorne’s are centered on New England. Most of his works feature moral metaphors with the inspiration of anti-puritanism.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, photograph by Mathew Brady. Nathaniel Hawthorne, (born July 4, 1804, Salem, Mass., U.S.—died May 19, 1864, Plymouth, N.H.), U.S. novelist and short-story writer. Descended from Puritans, he was imbued with a deep moral earnestness.
Aug 28, 2019 · Hawthorne (b. 1804–d. 1864)—was born Nathaniel Hathorne in Salem, Massachusetts, and came from a long line of farmers and sailors. His most notorious ancestor was John Hathorne, a judge at the Salem witch trials in 1692, which helps explain his constant struggle with the Calvinistic sense of determinism and tragic fate in his fiction.
Major novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne. The main character of The Scarlet Letter (1850) is Hester Prynne, a young married woman who has given birth to a child while living away from her husband in a village in Puritan New England. The husband, Roger Chillingworth, arrives in New England to find his wife pilloried and made to wear the letter A ...
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Jun 27, 2018 · The work of American fiction writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was based on the history of his Puritan ancestors and the New England of his own day but, in its "power of blackness, " has universal significance. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Mass., on July 4, 1804, into the sixth generation of his Salem family.
