Nathaniel Hawthorne
The 19th century had many great achievements happen within its 100-year time period. From the building of the Erie Canal, to the steel plow being invented. From the invention of the telegraph, to Thomas Edison creating the first light bulb. While all of these inventions have stood the test of time, one has lasted just as long; the inspiring tales a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1804. His name by birth was Nathaniel Hawthorne. He added the w to his name when he began to sign his stories. ("Nathaniel Hawthorne" American Writers II) One of Hawthorne's ancestors was actually a judge in the Salem witch trials. The guilt and shame Hawthorne felt of his ancestors were included in some of his stories. (McGraw Hill, pg.67) Hawthorne's father was a sea captain. He died of fever when Hawthorne was only four. Shortly after his father's death, his mother was forced to move her three children into her parent's home and then into her brother's home in Maine. Hawthorne's childhood was not particularly abnormal, as many famous authors have claimed to have.
69) It took Hawthorne a return to Salem to bring him fame. Contrary to his family's expectations, Hawthorne did not begin to read law or enter business, rather he moved into his mother's house to turn himself into a writer. College and graduated after four years. He was even persuaded to edit a Boston magazine for six months. Sadly, none of these novels reached the acclaim that The Scarlet Letter had with critics. 56) The Hawthorne's next moved to concord, Massachusetts. So, I don't see that there is anything left for me but to be an author. Hawthorne kept a notebook with him every place he went in which he jotted observations of places and people, ideas for stories, and phrases, which pleased him. The contrast between his old ways and this new way of life was a shock for Hawthorne. After graduation, he returned to Salem. Hawthorne called The Scarlet Letter, " positively a hell-fired story, into which I found it almost impossible to throw any cheering light. In April 1850, Ticknor and Fields of Boston published The Scarlet Letter. " He had been able to write little more than notebook entries and he found " nothing in the world that he thought preferable to his old solitude.
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