Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?

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“Let men tremble to win the hand of a woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart” is one of my favorite quotes that Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote from the Scarlet Letter. Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American writer, that wrote fictional stories. He was a gifted writer that was influenced to use his gift by a well known man, with the name of Ralph Waldo Emerson. I believe Nathaniel had an talent to make stories rhyme with detail, that sets the scene in your very, own mind. Hawthorne had a interesting life, he enjoyed writing short stories, like Twice-Told Tales”(that he had wrote in 1837), and reading. Nathaniel also had a secret that people then didn't know, but people now these days do. His actual birth name is Nathaniel Hathorne, but he added the “W” because he did not want people to know who his parents really were. His parents ‘Elizabeth Clarke Manning’ and his father ‘Nathaniel Hathorne SR.’ where part of the “Salem Witch Trials”. He changed his name because he did not want anything to do with his parents at that time, mainly because of their past and involvement in history, at that time. Nathaniel Hathorne was writing during a big time in history. He was alive during the birth of Abraham Lincoln in 1809, The beginning of the 1812 war, between the U.S and Britain, When Andrew Jackson was elected president in 1832, The great depression in 1857 and the beginning of the Civil War in 1861. Nathaniel helped write a popular piece of writing in 1850 called The Scarlet Letter. It was not any type of letter though, the letter was made of fine, worn, red cloth. People were set to believe it had a deep meaning to it, that was interpreting something from historical history. The Scarlet Letter was extremely succ... ... middle of paper ... ... Werlock, Abby Hawthorne, Nathaniel New York, 2009 http://www.fofweb.com/Lit/default.asp Reid, Margaret From artifact to archetype New York, Chelsea HOuse Publishing 2006 http://www.fofweb.com/Lit/default.asp Werlock, Abby Hawthorne, Nathaniel New York, 2006 http://www.fofweb.com/Lit/default.asp http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/nhd.html Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales New York, 2007 http://www.fofweb.com/Lit/default.asp Hawthorne, Nathaniel From the ‘Scarlet Letter’ http://www.notable-quotes.com/h/hawthorne_nathaniel.html Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Prentice Hall Literature, The American Experience. New Jersey: Oscar F. Bluemner, 1915. 266-67.

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