Nathaniel Hawthorne, born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts, was grandson of the judge who presided over the infamous witch trials. Hawthorne’s Puritan upbringing can be considered America’s upbringing as well, for in his lifetime he witnessed the clash between religion and the Industrial Revolution. His fiction, which includes such classics of American literature as The Scarlet Letter and The Blithedale Romance, concerns the conflict between good and evil that defined the character of a young nation. Hawthorne died in 1864 and is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- The Ambitious Guest, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2016–2017
- My Kinsman, Major Molineux, a short story, in Spring 2007