| Nathaniel Hawthorne was a novelist and short story writer. His contribution to the American transcendentalism is worthy to be noted. Hawthorne's ancestors had been prominent puritans. His novels are coloured by puritanism. Hawthorne was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. His father was a sea Captain who died when Hawthorne was aged 4. Hawthorne attended Bowdoin College in Maine and in 1928 he published his first novel, Funshawe. He later withdrew it from circulation and concentrated on writing short fiction.Hawthorne worked at various jobs, including a spell in the Boston Custom house, and he lived in the Brook Farm community for six months in 1841. |