![]() Hawthorne died in 1864, only a few months before the end of the Civil War. ![]() In a remarkable streak that lasted from 1850 to 1860, he wrote The Scarlet Letter, one of the first true best-selling novels in the United States, The House of the Seven Gables, often regarded as his greatest book, The Blithedale Romance, his only work written in the first person, and The Marble Faun, a romance set in a fantastical version of Italy. In 1841 he joined the transcendentalist Utopian community at Brook Farm, which, in 1842, he left to marry Sophia Peabody. He attended Bowdoin College, then worked as an editor and wrote short stories, many of which, including “Young Goodman Brown,” were published in his 1837 collection Twice-Told Tales. As a child, Hawthorne injured his leg and was forced to spend a year in bed he developed a love for reading during this time. The descendent of infamously harsh Puritans, and the only child of a sea captain who died when Hawthorne was four, Nathaniel Hawthorne grew up in Salem, Massachusetts. ![]()
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