10 Most Amazing Facts About Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne facts

American novelist and short-story author Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) drew inspiration from colonial New England for his best-known work, The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851). Both of them questioned morality and character, subjects that Hawthorne’s Transcendentalist colleagues Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were studying in their philosophical writings. These are the 12 things about the person who was that was … Read more