12 Fantastic Facts About Nathaniel Hawthorne

LITERATURE6:00 PM EDTNathaniel Hawthorne / Culture Club/GettyImagesAmerican novelist and short story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) drew in...

September 23, 2022
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LITERATURE6:00 PM EDTNathaniel Hawthorne / Culture Club/GettyImagesAmerican novelist and short story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) drew inspiration from colonial New England for his best-known works, The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851). Both critiqued morality and human nature, subjects that Hawthorne's Transcendentalist friends Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were also exploring in their philosophy. Here are 12 facts about the man once called 'handsomer than Lord Byron.

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