Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts. He was the second child of Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His father was a sea captain, and his mother was a descendant of one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials. Hawthorne attended Bowdoin College in Maine, where he became friends with future president Franklin Pierce. After college, he returned to Salem and began writing. His first novel, Fanshawe, was published anonymously in 1828. However, it was not successful, and Hawthorne burned the remaining copies. In 1837, Hawthorne published Twice-Told Tales, a collection of short stories that received critical acclaim. He went on to publish several other collections of short stories, including Mosses from an Old Manse and The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales. Hawthorne's most famous novel, The Scarlet Letter, was published in 1850. The novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, a woman who is forced to wear a
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