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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.
During his teenage years, Nathaniel Hawthorne spent extensive periods living in Raymond, Maine, on the shores of Sebago Lake. While he grew up primarily in the house of his mother's affluent brothers, the Mannings, in Salem, these stays in Maine were a significant part of his youth before he eventually attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.1