Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)
Author of The Scarlet Letter
About the Author
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. When he was four years old, his father died. Years later, with financial help from his maternal relatives who recognized his literary talent, Hawthorne was able to enroll in Bowdoin College. Among his classmates were the show more important literary and political figures Horatio Bridge, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Franklin Pierce. These friends supplied Hawthorne with employment during the early years after graduation while Hawthorne was still establishing himself as a legitimate author. Hawthorne's first novel, Fanshawe, which he self-published in 1828, wasn't quite the success that he had hoped it would be. Not willing to give up, he began writing stories for Twice-Told Tales. These stories established Hawthorne as a leading writer. In 1842, Hawthorne moved to Concord, Massachusetts, where he wrote a number of tales, including "Rappaccini's Daughter" and "Young Goodman Brown," that were later published as Mosses from an Old Manse. The overall theme of Hawthorne's novels was a deep concern with ethical problems of sin, punishment, and atonement. No one novel demonstrated that more vividly than The Scarlet Letter. This tale about the adulterous Puritan Hester Prynne is regarded as Hawthorne's best work and is a classic of American literature. Other famous novels written by Hawthorne include The House of Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance. In 1852, Hawthorne wrote a campaign biography of his college friend Franklin Pierce. After Pierce was elected as President of the United States, he rewarded Hawthorne with the Consulship at Liverpool, England. Hawthorne died in his sleep on May 19, 1864, while on a trip with Franklin Pierce. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Disambiguation Notice:
Hawthorne added the 'w' to his last name out of guilt and shame due to the fact that his ancestor was Judge Hathorne at the famous Salem Witch Trials.
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Works by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Collected Novels: Fanshawe/The Scarlet Letter/The House of the Seven Gables/The Blithedale Romance/The Marble Faun (1983) 616 copies
The Custom-House; The Scarlet Letter; The House of the Seven Gables; The Blithedale Romance; The Marble Faun (1985) 47 copies
Mitos Gregos. Histórias Extraordinárias de Heróis, Deuses e Monstros Para Jovens Leitores (Em Portuguese do Brasil) (2016) 34 copies
The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair; or, True Stories from New England History, 1620-1803 (1896) 30 copies
The scarlet letter : complete, authoritative text with biographical background and critical history plus essays from… (1850) 26 copies
The World Mythology Collection: Deluxe 6-volume box set edition (Arcturus Collector's Classics, 14) (2022) 26 copies
The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: The House of the Seven Gables/the Scarlet Letter/Twice-Told Tales (1994) 25 copies
Grolier Classics: Scarlet Letter, History of Herodotus, Utilitarianism and On Liberty, Sonnets (1956) 18 copies
Greek Mythology 18 copies
The Dolliver Romance, Fanshawe, and Septimus Felton with an Appendix Containing the Ancestral footstep (1884) 14 copies
Nathaniel Hawthorne THE SCARLET LETTER Reader's Digest c. 1984 HC Illustated (1904) — Author — 13 copies
Tales, Sketches, and Other Papers [Volume XII - Riverside Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne] (1883) 13 copies
The English Notebooks: Based upon the Original Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library (1962) 9 copies
Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. (150 works) Incl: The Scarlet Letter, Twice Told Tales, The House of the Seven Gables,… (2007) 8 copies
Mitos gregos para jovens leitores (Clássicos da literatura mundial) (Portuguese Edition) (2019) 8 copies
Tales and Sketches (A Book of Autographs, Browne's Folly, Doctor Bullivant, The Journal of the Solit (The Library of… (2004) 8 copies
CENTENARY ED WORKS NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE: VOL. XV, THE LETTERS, 18131843 (Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel… (1989) 8 copies
Reading & Training : Nathaniel Hawthorne : The scarlet letter [book + sound recording] (1998) — Writer — 7 copies
Twelve tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne 7 copies
CENTENARY ED WORKS NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE: VOL. XIX, THE CONSULAR LETTERS, 18531855 (Centenary Edition of the Works of… (1988) 7 copies
Mitos Gregos (Contos) 6 copies
Scarlet Letter II by Nathaniel Hawthorne - Del Prado Miniature (The Miniature Classics Library) (2003) 6 copies
Passages from the English Notebooks of Nathaniel Hawthorne (volume 1 only) Nathaniel Hawthornes Works Vol. 17 (1871) 5 copies
CENTENARY ED WORKS NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE: VOL. XX, THE CONSULAR LETTERS, 18561857 (Centenary Edition of the Works of… (1988) 5 copies
Reading & Training : Nathaniel Hawthorne : Stories of suspense [book + sound recording] (2004) — Writer — 5 copies
Edward Randolph's Portrait 4 copies
Study Guide for The Scarlet Letter with Related Readings (Glencoe Literature Library) (2000) 4 copies
The heart of Hawthorne's journals 4 copies
Nathaniel Hawthorne 5 in 1 The Custom House, The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance,… (1985) 3 copies
Centenary Edition Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Volume 11, The Snow Image and Uncollected (1974) 3 copies
The Scarlet Letter: Student Edition with Chapter Summaries, Annotations, and Definitions (2008) 3 copies
The Scarlet Letter, the History of Herodotus, Utilitarianism and on Liberty, the Sonnets, Te Open Boat, Beethoven:… (1956) 2 copies
Narrativas e lendas da antiga Grecia 2 copies
Scary Halloween Stories 2 copies
The Snow Image 2 copies
Nathaniel Hawthorne Collected Novels: Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale… (2014) 2 copies
Allegories of the heart 2 copies
Les contes prodigieux 2 copies
Footprints on the Seashore 2 copies
Two Tanglewood Tales: The Dragon's Teeth / The Minotaur (Maynard's English Classic Series, No. 217) (1899) 2 copies
Nathaniel Hawthorne Collection: Twice-Told Tales, The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables (2020) 2 copies
Works Of Nathaniel Hawthorne Volume VII Tanglewood Tales A Wonder Book Sketches and Poems (1923) 2 copies
Romanzi 2 copies
Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: American Note Books / English Note Books - with illustrations 2 copies
The Scarlet Letter (Illustrated): The 1850 Classic Edition with Original Illustrations (2023) 2 copies
I capolavori 2 copies
Tales from A Wonder Book For Girls And Boys: The Greek Myths of King Midas and Pandora's Box (PlainTales Classics) (2009) 2 copies
HAWTHORNE'S GREAT BOOK OF RECITATIONS AND DIALOGUES Containing the very best of each kind: tragic, sentimental and… — Author — 2 copies
The House of the Seven Gables Grandfather's Chair (American Authors in Prose and Poetry, II) (1940) 2 copies
Two Christmas Stories 2 copies
Contos 1 copy
I miti greci: Re Mida, Lo scrigno di Pandora, Proserpina e Plutone, il ratto di Europa (1982) 1 copy
A Collection of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Short Stories: Young Goodman Brown and 87 Others (2014) 1 copy
Stories, A Limited Edition (The Grey Champion, The Weeding-Knell and The Minister s Black Veil, etc.)[The Franklin… (1978) 1 copy
Complete Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Over 120 Short Stories Including Rare Sketches… (2015) 1 copy
The House of the Seven Gables and Other Tales (Cambridge Scholars Publishing Classics Texts) (2009) 1 copy
The Blithedale Romance (New Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) by Nathaniel Hawthorne (2010-12-10) (1656) 1 copy
الحرف القرمزي 1 copy
El Sillon Del Abuelo 1 copy
The Whole history of Grandfather's chair or True stories from New England History, 1620-1808 (2001) 1 copy
La lettera scalatta 1 copy
Contes extranys 1 copy
5 Books Moses From An Old Manse; Twice-Told Tales; House of Seven Gables; Scarlet Letter; Grandfather's Chair (1900) 1 copy
Howe's Masquerade 1 copy
Novela norteamericana 1 copy
Hathorne's Twice-Told Tales 1 copy
Il giovane signor Brown 1 copy
Cuentos del Bosque Frondoso 1 copy
The Scarlet Letter 1 copy
The Scralet Letter 1 copy
Alice Doanne's Appeal ss 1 copy
MISTERIOSOS 1 copy
MITOS GREGOS 1 copy
Taccuini americani 1 copy
HLa Icasa delle sette torri 1 copy
Our Old Home, etc 1 copy
Dr. Grimshawe's Secret 1 copy
Το άλικο γράμμα 1 copy
De merveilleuses histoires 1 copy
The House of Seven Gables 1 copy
Tanglewood Tales 1 copy
La casa dei sette tetti 1 copy
De spoorweg naar de hemel 1 copy
The letters, 1843-1853 1 copy
Lalettera scarlatta 1 copy
Η ιστορία του Μπλάιθντεηλ 1 copy
The Custom-House - Concluded 1 copy
ගින්දර පළදනාව 1 copy
Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter, The Blithe-Dale Romance, Mosses From an Old Manse (Works of Nathaniel… (1880) 1 copy
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter(Centenary Text), Ethan Brand, The Birthmark, Young Gooman Brown, My Kinsman,… (1967) 1 copy
Hawthorne's New Hampshire 1 copy
Fire-worship (Short Story) 1 copy
Night Sketches (Short Story) 1 copy
The Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, and Twenty Short Stories 1 copy
The new Adam and Eve. Egotism. The Christmas banquet. Drowne's wooden image. The intelligence office. Roger Malvin's… (2013) 1 copy
Other Tales and Sketches (From: " The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches ") (2012) 1 copy
Ordinary Mysteries: The Common Journal of Nathaniel And Sophia Hawthorne, 1842-1843 (Memoirs of the American… (2005) 1 copy
The Scarlet Letter Adapted 1 copy
The Nathaniel Hawthorne Collection (7 novels and 7 short story collections all with an active table of contents) (2011) 1 copy
Once Upon A Time - A Collection of the Original Fairy Tales Referenced In the First Season of the Hit Television Show… (2012) 1 copy
A Perennial classic 1 copy
The Wayside 1 copy
Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Marble Faun / French and Italian Note Books - with illustrations 1 copy
Miti greci 1¦ ( I) — Author — 1 copy
Miti greci 2¦ ( I) — Author — 1 copy
Mystery Theatre (Volume Four): Mr. Higginbottom's Catastrophe, Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, The Strange History of David… (2000) 1 copy
Il segno (in Racconti) 1 copy
Lendas do mundo antigo 1 copy
The Outsider 1 copy
Some twice-told tales 1 copy
The Complete Writings of Hawthorne. Volume XXII. Notes of Travel in Four Volumes. Volume 4. (1903) 1 copy
Contos da Grécia Antiga 1 copy
Novelly 1 copy
Der graue Beschützer und andere Erzählungen Übers. aus d. Amerik. u. hrsg. v. Friedrich Minckwitz 1 copy
The Scarlet Letter & A Scarlet Stigma: A Novel and Adapted Play (Illustrated Edition): A Romantic Tale of Sin and… (2015) 1 copy
The Sketch Book 1 copy
La Semblance du Vivant: Contes d'Images et d'Effigies (Versions françaises) (French Edition) (2010) 1 copy
Hawthorne Romanzi 1 copy
Las Esposas de los muertos 1 copy
My Vegetable Progeny 1 copy
A Dama Velada 1 copy
La ambición del forastero 1 copy
Young Goodman Brown and Other Tales (Oxford World's Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1998-10-15) (1658) 1 copy
Hawthorne's Work's- 23 Volume Set; Twice Told Tales I; Twice Told Tales II; Our Old Home; Tanglewood Tales; The… (2014) 1 copy
Contes du minotaure 1 copy
Nathaniel Hawthorne's introduction to Mosses From an Old Manse The Old Manse Concord, Massachusetts (1995) 1 copy
Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Twice-Told Tales The House of the Seven Gables & The Snow Image) (1879) 1 copy
Young Goodman Brown: Simplified for Modern Readers (Accelerated Reader AR Quiz No. 7950) (2013) 1 copy
The Scarlet Letter; Moby Dick; The Red Badge of Courage; The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Four American Novels) (1959) 1 copy
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Volume 3-Including One Novel 'The Scarlet Letter,… (2011) 1 copy
Dr. Heidegger's experiment, The Birthmark, Ethan Brand, Wakefield, Drowne's wooden image, The ambitious guest, The… (1897) 1 copy
Die himmlische Eisenbahn. Erzählungen, Skizzen, Vorworte, Rezensionen (Winkler Weltliteratur) (1977) 1 copy
Τρεις γοτθικές αλληγορίες 1 copy
Maître Brown fils 1 copy
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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 929 copies
Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture (1991) — Contributor — 570 copies
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural: A Treasury of Spellbinding Tales Old & New (1985) — Contributor — 526 copies
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (2009) — Contributor — 265 copies
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1 (1990) — Contributor, some editions — 256 copies
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2: From "Kubla Khan" to the Bronte Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray (2012) — Contributor — 188 copies
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (2006) — Contributor — 181 copies
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Contributor — 156 copies
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction of the 19th Century (1981) — Contributor — 136 copies
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Contributor — 134 copies
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contributor — 133 copies
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contributor — 83 copies
Great Tales of Terror from Europe and America: Gothic Stories of Horror and Romance 1765-1840 (1972) — Contributor — 70 copies
What happened in Salem? Documents pertaining to the seventeenth-century witchcraft trials (1960) — Contributor — 56 copies
Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the Occult: Stories by H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton,… (1989) — Contributor — 41 copies
Christmas Ghosts: Seventeen Great Ghost Stories in the Christmas Tradition (1987) — Contributor — 40 copies
Witches, Wraiths, and Warlocks: Supernatural Tales of the American Renaissance (1971) — Contributor — 38 copies
The Graphic Canon of Crime & Mystery, Vol. 1: From Sherlock Holmes to A Clockwork Orange to Jo Nesbø (2017) — Contributor — 34 copies
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 5: Community Responsibility (1969) — Contributor — 30 copies
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 4: The World Around Us (1968) — Contributor — 29 copies
The Ghost of Fear and Others: H. P. Lovecraft's Favorite Horror Stories Vol. 1 (2012) — Contributor — 26 copies
Tales of the Wandering Jew: A Collection of Contemporary and Classic Stories (European Literary Fantasy Anthologies) (1991) — Contributor — 25 copies
American Literature: The Makers and the Making (In Two Volumes) (1973) — Contributor, some editions — 25 copies
Scientific Romance: An International Anthology of Pioneering Science Fiction (2016) — Contributor — 16 copies
Selected English Short Stories: XIX and XX Centuries (Second Series) (1924) — Contributor — 14 copies
Great American Ghost Stories: Chilling Tales by Poe, Bierce, Hawthorne and Others (2008) — Contributor — 10 copies
The Origins of Science Fiction (Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection) (2022) — Contributor — 9 copies
The Banned Books Compendium: 32 Classic Forbidden Books — Contributor — 9 copies
Penny Dreadful Multipack Volume 7 – The Americans: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Mosses… (2015) — Contributor — 7 copies
A Treasury of Great Short Stories — Contributor — 7 copies
Fear in the Blood: Tales from the Dark Lineages of the Weird: 48 (British Library Tales of the Weird) (2024) — Contributor — 6 copies
Flora Curiosa: Cryptobotany, Mysterious Fungi, Sentient Trees, and Deadly Plants in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy (2008) — Contributor — 6 copies
The Phoenix Pick Anthology of Classic Science Fiction Stories: Verne, Wells, Kipling, Hawthorne & More) (2008) — Author — 5 copies
Representative American Short Stories — Contributor; Contributor — 5 copies
Tyve mesterfortællinger — Contributor, some editions — 4 copies
Weird Tales Volume 31 Number 6, June 1938 — Contributor — 3 copies
Reading & Training : Stories of ghosts and mystery [book + sound recording] (2008) — Writer — 2 copies
Shirley Temple Storybook Collection: The Terrible Clockman / The House of the Seven Gables — Original story — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 31 Number 4, April 1938 — Contributor — 2 copies
Crime and Detection (Second Series) — Contributor — 2 copies
ESSENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLASSIC BANNED BOOKS: Adam Bede, Fanny Hill, Candide, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, The… — Contributor — 2 copies
Best of Classic Christian Literature for 99 Cents - EXTRACTS FROM ADAM'S DIARY by Mark Twain ... EVE'S DIARY by Mark… — Contributor — 1 copy
The House of the Seven Gables [1960 Shirley Temple Storybook TV episode] (1960) — Original book — 1 copy
Short Stories: Old and New — Contributor — 1 copy
America through the short story — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Hathorne, Nathaniel
- Other names
- Boyce, Ashley A.
Oberon
Aubépine, M. - Birthdate
- 1804-07-04
- Date of death
- 1864-05-19
- Burial location
- Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts, USA
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Salem, Massachusetts, USA
- Place of death
- Plymouth, New Hampshire, USA
- Places of residence
- Salem, Massachusetts, USA (birth)
Concord, Massachusetts, USA
Plymouth, New Hampshire, USA (death)
West Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA
Rock Ferry, England, UK
Brook Farm, Boston, Massachusetts, USA - Education
- Bowdoin College (BA|1825)
- Occupations
- weigher (Boston Common House)
surveyor (Salem Custom House)
writer
author
novelist - Relationships
- Hawthorne, Julian (son)
Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne (daughter)
Hawthorne, Hildegarde (granddaughter)
Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody (wife)
Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer (sister-in-law)
Melville, Herman (friend) (show all 12)
Pierce, Franklin (friend)
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. (friend)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (friend)
Hillard, George Stillman (friend)
Bridge, Horatio (friend)
Alcott, Louisa May (student) - Organizations
- Phi Beta Kappa (1824)
- Awards and honors
- The Hall of Fame for Great Americans (1900)
- Short biography
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion.
He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors include John Hathorne, the only judge involved in the Salem witch trials who never repented of his actions. He entered Bowdoin College in 1821, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1824, and graduated in 1825. He published his first work in 1828, the novel Fanshawe; he later tried to suppress it, feeling that it was not equal to the standard of his later work. He published several short stories in periodicals, which he collected in 1837 as Twice-Told Tales. The next year, he became engaged to Sophia Peabody. He worked at the Boston Custom House and joined Brook Farm, a transcendentalist community, before marrying Peabody in 1842. The couple moved to The Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts, later moving to Salem, the Berkshires, then to The Wayside in Concord. The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850, followed by a succession of other novels. A political appointment as consul took Hawthorne and family to Europe before their return to Concord in 1860. Hawthorne died on May 19, 1864, and was survived by his wife and their three children.
Much of Hawthorne's writing centers on New England, many works featuring moral metaphors with an anti-Puritan inspiration. His fiction works are considered part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, dark romanticism. His themes often center on the inherent evil and sin of humanity, and his works often have moral messages and deep psychological complexity. His published works include novels, short stories, and a biography of his college friend Franklin Pierce, the 14th President of the United States. - Disambiguation notice
- Hawthorne added the 'w' to his last name out of guilt and shame due to the fact that his ancestor was Judge Hathorne at the famous Salem Witch Trials.
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