Transcript Nathaniel Hawthorne - Kaneland School District

Nathaniel Hawthorne
By:
Kelsey
Kevin
Adrian
Nathaniel Hawthorne
• He was born in 1804 and died 1864
• Birth place was Salem Massachusetts
• One of his ancestors was one of the judges in
the Salem Which Trials
• Attended Bowdoin College from 1821 to 1824
– During this time befriended the future
president Franklin Pierce
• Pursued a writing career/ wrote many well
know books
• He died in a New Hampshire hotel room
FACTS
• Returned to Salem after college and set himself up in
what he called a “dismal chamber”
• He became engaged in 1838 to an illustrator named
Sophia Peabody and got married in 1832
• Hawthorne and Sophia had 3 children named Una
(Mental victim and died at a young age), Julia, Rose.
• He was rewarded with a position of the United States
Council in Liver Pool 1853
Sophia Peabody
Important Works
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The Scarlet letter – 1850
The House of Seven Gables – 1851
The Blithedal Romance – 1852
Twice Told Tales – 1837
– The book won success which
encouraged further work
His
birth
place.
The Hawthorne house today
in Salem Ma.
This is the gave site of
Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Work Cited
• Wikipedia
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_hawthor
ne
• The Literature Book
– The Nathaniel Hawthorne Biography