Nathaniel Hawthorne - (1804 - 1864) American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Hawthorne is an acknowledged master of American fiction. His novel The Scarlet Letter (1850) is one of the most-read classics of American literature, and several of...

Born: July 4, 1804 Salem, Massachusetts Died: May 19, 1864 Plymouth, New Hampshire Writer and descendant of John Hathorne, chief magistrate in the Salem trials Although American author Nathaniel Hawthorne was born more than a hundred years after the...

From "Young Goodman Brown" (1835) Reprinted in The American Tradition in Literature in 1974 "Young Goodman Brown," a short story by nineteenth-century American fiction writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (see biography entry), was...

(born July 4, 1804, Salem, Mass., U.S.—died May 19, 1864, Plymouth, N.H.) U.S. novelist and short-story writer. Descended from Puritans, he was imbued with a deep moral earnestness. After producing several unexceptional works, he wrote some of...

Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. He is seen as a key figure in the development of American literature for his tales of the nation's colonial...