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Essay Archive - Nathanial Hawthorne
Nathanial Hawthorne
Nathanial Hawthorne. Considered to be one of the greatest American
writers of the 19th century. But did you know that he hated portraits, and
it is now thought that he was a mild manic-depressive? Born in Salem,
Massachusetts on July 4, 1804. A decendant of a long puritan line of
Hathorne's. His ancestry included his great-great grandfather, John
Hathorne who was a judge at the Salem witch trials 112 years before
Nathanial was born. Judge John Hathorne charged many with the crime of
witchcraft,and condemned them to their deaths. Nathanial was embaressed by
this and changed the spelling of his last name from Ha....
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