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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne's ancestors in Salem, Massachusetts, were Puritans named Hathorne. He added a w to his name when he began writing.
The short story "Young Goodman Brown," written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, was first published in 1835 in the New England Magazine. It was later included in the 1846 collection Mosses from an Old Manse.1