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Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Great American Writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, born on the fourth of July in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, is one of the greatest American writers. He contributed to American literature until his death in May of 1864. Among his literary accomplishments were: The Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gables, and The Blithedale Romance. Hawthorne received his education alongside many great men at Bowdoin College. In 1821, while attending Bowdoin College, Hawthorne began writing his first literary piece, The Fanshawe. He completed it in 1828 and published it anonymously. Hawthorne graduated from college in 1825. Among his classmates were Henry W. Longfellow and Franklin Pierce. Pierce and Hawthorne stayed close friends throughout their lives. Pierce was with Hawthorne when he died of severe gastrointestinal cancer. Before Hawthorne’s death in 1864 he accomplished much. He completed a second work, Twice-Told Tales, in 1837, the same year he met his future wife, Sophia Peabody. The two were secretly engaged and remained so until their marriage in 1842. Sophia and Nathaniel began a family of there own. They had three children: Una, Julian, and Rose. In 1839, Hawthorne took a job to support himself. He began at hawthorne, nathaniel, until, american, house, year, surveyor, scarlet, pierce, letter, death, continued, completed, college, began, 1864, wrote, writer, write, while, three, stayed, sophia, seven, same, salem, romance, position, literary, greatest, great, gables, first, family, england