American author (1804–1864)
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He wrote the book with the red A that English teachers can't quit — a story about shame, secrets, and Puritan severity so perfectly dark it's been assigned for generations. His obsession: the moral rot lurking under New England's pious surface.
Born in Salem in 1804 into a family with deep Puritan roots, Hawthorne graduated from Bowdoin College in 1825 and published his first novel three years later — then spent years trying to bury it. His short stories gathered steam through the 1830s, collected as Twice-Told Tales in 1837. He joined Brook Farm's transcendentalist experiment, married Sophia Peabody in 1842, and bounced between Concord, Salem, and the Berkshires while writing. The Scarlet Letter landed in 1850 and made his name, followed by a string of novels steeped in what critics would call dark romanticism: moral allegories shot…
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.
I have not lived, but only dreamed about living.
The young have less charity for aged follies than the old for those of youth.
As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest.
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