Nathaniel Hawthorne: Quick Facts


Facts

Born July 4, 1804 • Salem • Massachusetts
Died May 19, 1864 (aged 59) • Plymouth • New Hampshire
Awards And Honors Hall of Fame (1900)
Notable Works “Doctor Heidegger’s Experiment” • “Fanshawe” • “Mosses from an Old Manse” • “My Kinsman, Major Molineux” • “Rappaccini’s Daughter” • “Roger Malvin’s Burial” • “Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys” • “The Blithedale Romance” • “The Celestial Railroad” • “The House of the Seven Gables” • “The Marble Faun” • “The Scarlet Letter” • “Twice-Told Tales” • “Young Goodman Brown”
Movement / Style American Renaissance

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