NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
\nɐθˈanjə͡l hˈɔːθɔːn], \nɐθˈanjəl hˈɔːθɔːn], \n_ɐ_θ_ˈa_n_j_əl h_ˈɔː_θ_ɔː_n]\
Definitions of NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
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An American novelist and short-story writer; born in Salem. Mass., July 4, 1804; died at Plymouth, N. H., May 19, 1864. He graduated at Bowdoin in 1825; held a customs post at Boston from 1838 to 1841; was a member of the Brook Farm community, 1841; was surveyor of the port at Salem from 1846 to 1849, and consul at Liverpool from 1853 to 1857, returning to the United States in 1861. Among his works are: "Fanshawe" (1826); "Twice-Told Tales" (1837) a second series appearing some years later); "Mosses from an Old Manse" (1846); "The Scarlet Letter" (1850); "The House of the Seven Gables" (1851); "The Wonder Book" (1851); "The Blithedale Romance" (1852); "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales" (1852); "Life of Franklin Pierce" (1852); "Tanglewood Tales" (1853); "The Marble Faun" (1860); "Our Old Home" (1863); "Pansie", sometimes called "The Dolliver Romance" (1864); "Note Books" (1868-72); "Septimius Felton" (1872); "Tales of the White Hills" (1877); and "Dr. Grimshawe's Secret" (1883), the last-named being left in a fragmentary condition.
By Charles Dudley Warner
