Books Nathaniel Hawthorne Wrote. From 1853 to 1857, hawthorne lived in england. He was born in 1804 in salem, massachusetts to nathaniel hathorne and the former elizabet.
Hawthorne’s works belong to romanticism or, more specifically, dark romanticism, cautionary tales that suggest that guilt, sin, and evil are the most inherent natural qualities of humanity. Novelist and short story writer, a central figure in the american renaissance. Hawthorne went to italy on a family tour after serving as a consul and then went back to england.
His father, also nathaniel, was a sea captain and descendent of john hawthorne, one of the judges in the salem witchcraft trials of 1692.
Unable to find an edition of the scarlet letter that did not scare the bejesus out of me, i opted instead to buy the house of the seven gables : Hawthorne began writing his first children’s stories in 1840 and published them in a volume at the end of that year entitled grandfather's chair: Nathaniel hawthorne book description : Nathaniel hawthorne was a famous author who was born in salem, massachusetts, where his birthplace is now a house museum, and died in plymouth, new hampshire.