Brief introduction of nathaniel hawthorne.

Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, USA. His ancestor was one of the three judges in the famous Salem exorcism case 1692. My father was a captain and died at sea when Hawthorne was four years old. Hawthorne was brought up by his mother. 182 1 year, Hawthorne entered Bowdoin College in Maine with the support of his relatives, where he became friends with Longfellow and franklin pierce. 1824 After graduating from college, Hawthorne returned to his hometown and began to write. After writing some short stories, he began to try to write novels about his experiences in Bodoin College. This is the novel Fan Xiaowei, published anonymously in 1828, which did not attract attention. Hawthorne burned all the unsold novels.

Hawthorne works in customs. 1837, he published a two-volume collection of short stories, "Two Talk", and began to officially sign his name. Among them, the minister's black veil (1836) was the most praised. 184 1 year, Hawthorne participated in Brooke Farm founded by Transcendentalists. 1842 On July 9, he got married and the marriage was very happy. They lived in an old pastor's house in Concord, Massachusetts for three years, during which Hawthorne finished the collection of short stories "Moss in an Old House" (also translated [Moss from an Old House, 1846]). Among them, the young Goodman Brown (1835) and Rapaccini's daughter (1844) are very popular.

1846, Hawthorne went to the customs again. He bought an old house called roadside from alcott in Concord and lived there. His neighbors are writers Emerson and Thoreau. 1848 lost his position as a customs officer because of his different political views from the authorities, so he devoted himself to creative activities and wrote his most important novel The Scarlet Letter (1850). Hawthorne met Melville, who lives nearby, at a picnic and became friends. Melville praised Hawthorne's Moss in the Old House and mentioned Moby Dick's writing in his letter to Hawthorne. Edgar allan poe was also interested in The Story Tell Again and Moss in the Old House, and wrote many comments.

After the publication of The Scarlet Letter, it was a great success, and Hawthorne went on to create many works. Among them are The House with Seven Gables (185 1) and The Romance Without Borders (1852). 1853 after pierce became president of the United States, Hawthorne was appointed consul in Liverpool, England. 1857, when pierce left office, Hawthorne lived in Italy and wrote another novel, Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Montbeni (1860), which discussed the issues of good and evil. Hawthorne 1860 returned to the United States, settled in Concord and insisted on writing. 1May 864 19 Hawthorne and Pierce died in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA.