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American author (–)

Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, – May 19, ) was an American novelist and short story writer.

His works often focus on history, morality, and religion.

He was born in in Salem, Massachusetts, from a family long associated with that town. Hawthorne entered Bowdoin College in , was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in ,^[1] and graduated in He published his first work in , the novel Fanshawe; he later tried to suppress it, feeling that it was not equal to the standard of his later work.^[2] He published several short stories in periodicals, which he collected in as Twice-Told Tales.

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The following year, he became engaged to Sophia Peabody. He worked at the Boston Custom House and joined Brook Farm, a transcendentalist community, before marrying Peabody in The couple moved to The Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts, later moving to Salem, the Berkshires, then to The Wayside in Concord.

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