Brief+Biography+of+Nathaniel+Hawthorne

- Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, MA, (a descendant of a long line of Puritan ancestors including John Hawthorne, a presiding magistrate in the Salem witch trials). After his father was lost at sea, when Nathaniel was four, his mother became overly protective of Nathaniel. She pushed him towards isolated pursuits. As a result, his childhood left him overly shy and he spent most of his time reading, which molded his life as a writer. He wrote his first book and after that he began publishing stories about New England Puritanism. He got married and became the Surveyor of Salem port for four years. He started to publish more puritan stories. //Scarlet Letter// was one of his best novels.
 * Nathaniel Hawthorne**

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