Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hathorne was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts; he later added a 'w' to his name. His great-great-grandfather John Hathorne had been a judge at the Salem witch trials. His father, a sea captain, died when Nathaniel was four. He studied at Bowdoin College in Maine, where his classmates included the future poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the future president Franklin Pierce. For years afterward he lived quietly in Salem, writing stories, many of them about the Puritan past, collected in Twice-Told Tales (1837). He worked at the Boston Custom House, lived briefly at the utopian community of Brook Farm, and in 1842 married Sophia Peabody; they lived in Concord at the Old Manse. After losing his post at the Salem Custom House, he wrote The Scarlet Letter (1850), about Hester Prynne, who is forced to wear a scarlet 'A' in a Puritan town. The House of the Seven Gables followed in 1851. For children he retold Greek myths in A Wonder-Book and Tanglewood Tales. He served as American consul in Liverpool and died in 1864 in Plymouth, New Hampshire.

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Faith: Faith not well documented in detail; his works often explore religion and morality in Puritan New England. Source: Wikipedia