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Hawthorne


            Nathaniel Hawthorne was born to two very loving parents, Nathaniel and Elizabeth Hawthorne on Independence Day July 4, 1804. Nathaniel and his father shared the same name. Nathaniel father was a sea captain. When Nathaniel was four years old his father died at sea leavening him and his widowed mother. His maternal relatives recognized the literary talent that Nathaniel posed and help finance his education at Bowdoin Collage.
             Nathaniel's stay at Bowdoin collage was the most helpful thing that ever happened to him during his whole life. He made many friends there some of witch supplied him with jobs during lean times in life. One of these friends was Franklin Pierce, who later became the 14th president of the United States of America. In 1836 Nathaniel joined a cult call the transcendentalist, led by Ralph Waldo Emerson. In the year 1841 Nathaniel invested 1500 dollars into the Brook Farm Utopian Community only to leave within one year.
             Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote many great works during his life, some of witch is still read to this very day. Some of his works include The Custom House, The Scarlet Letter, and Fanshawe just to name a few. Fanshawe was a imitate of Sir Walter Scott witch Nathaniel self publish in 1828. The Custom House was a prequel to The Scarlet Letter witch also did very well in the stores. The Scarlet Letter remains relevant for its philosophical and psychological depth and continues to be read as a classic. The book attained an immediate and lasting success because it addressed a spiritual and moral issue that in 1850 was an extremely risqué subject. On May 19, 1864 Nathaniel died on a trip to the mountains for his health with his life long friend Franklin Pierce.
            


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