“Of the American writers destined to live, he is the most original, the one least indebted to foreign models or literary precedents of any kind.”
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion.
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culture · American author (1804–1864) · novelist · writer · diplomat · children's writer · science fiction writer · short story writer · consul · also Nathaniel Hawthorne, N. H., Monsieur de l'Aubépine, Nathaniel Hathorne, Hawthorne
Born 4 July 1804 · Died 19 May 1864 · Q69339
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2026· 2 entries
“I care more for your good opinion than for that of a host of critics.”
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2008· 1 entry
The Library of America selected Hawthorne's "A show of wax-figures" for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime
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1864· 3 entries
Died 1864-05-19.
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“When the Artist rises high enough to achieve the Beautiful, the symbol by which he makes it perceptible to mortal senses becomes of little value in his eyes, while his spirit possesses itself in the enjoyment of the reality.”
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“Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.”
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1860· 1 entry
And that year saw the publication of The Marble Faun, his first new book in seven years
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1857· 1 entry
At the close of the Pierce administration
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1853· 2 entries
Career landmark: ambassador (1853–1857).
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With the position of United States consul in Liverpool shortly after the publication of Tanglewood Tales
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1851· 2 entries
A collection of short stories retelling myths that he had been thinking about writing since 1846
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To Hawthorne: "In token of my admiration for his genius, this book is inscribed to Nathaniel Hawthorne
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1850· 2 entries
When the authors met at a picnic hosted by a mutual friend
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Followed by a succession of other novels
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1846· 1 entry
“A small troglodyte made his appearance here at ten minutes to six o”
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1845· 1 entry
“I find it a very sober and serious kind of happiness that springs from the birth of a child ... There is no escaping it any longer. I have business on earth now, and must look about me for the means of doing it.”
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1843· 1 entry
“Egotism; or, the Bosom-Serpent”
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1842· 1 entry
At a ceremony in the Peabody parlor on West Street in Boston
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1841· 1 entry
Not because he agreed with the experiment but because it helped him save money to marry Sophia
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1836· 1 entry
Hawthorne served as the editor of the American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge
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1830· 1 entry
“The Hollow of the Three Hills”
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1828· 2 entries
The novel Fanshawe; he later tried to suppress it, feeling that it was not equal to the standard of his later work
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That the author of Fanshawe has a "fair prospect of future success
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1825· 1 entry
Studied at Bowdoin College (1825).
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1821· 2 entries
Partly because of family connections in the area, and also because of its relatively inexpensive tuition rate
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Was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1824, and graduated in 1825
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1819· 1 entry
Was sent back to Salem for school and soon complained of homesickness and being too far from his mother and sisters
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1813· 1 entry
And he became lame and bedridden for a year, though several physicians could find nothing wrong with him
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1808· 1 entry
Of yellow fever in Dutch Suriname; he had been a member of the East India Marine Society
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1804· 3 entries
In Salem, Massachusetts; his birthplace is preserved and open to the public
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Born 1804-07-04.
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In Salem, Massachusetts, from a family long associated with the town
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