I want to do my project on Nathaniel Hawthorne because he is an american author I am interested in reading. Normally I read british authors and horror books. But Hawthorne is american and writes romance novels and short stories. I think it would be good if I had a change of pace for once. My mom and grandma were always big readers of all the classics. They are always telling me that I should read this author, or that book. The one that always stuck out, was the man who wrote, “The Scarlet Letter”. I always wanted to read this book, this and “The House Of Seven Gables. They always seemed like interesting books, but I never got around to actually reading them. So for this project, I decided that I wanted to do it on Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Nathaniel Hawthorne is in fact an american, and was most famous for his six novels, but he has also written many many shot stories. I think I might read a few of these short stories, but I’m going to focus mostly on his novels, “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House Of Seven Gables”, “The Blithedale Romance”, “Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret”, “Fanshawe”, and “The Marble Faun”.
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born and raised in Salem, Mass. on July 4th, 1804. His grandfather and father were both merchant sailors, and his grandfather later became a judge during the salem witch trials. He went to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. In July of 1842, he married Sophia Peabody, a painter. Having three children, daughters Ursa and Rose, and his son, future author Julian Hawthorne, he lived out his life in Salem, writing many short stories and novels. During his life as a young writer, he met many other writers, just as famous as he was to become, making friends with many of them. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Horatio Bridge, were a few as well as Herman Melville. In fact, Herman Melville dedicated his novel, “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” to Nathaniel Hawthorne.
