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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. When he was four, his father died on a while on a trip in Surinam, Dutch Guinea, but some of his mother's relatives recognized his literary talent and helped pay for his education at Bowdoin College. He had some very important and successful classmates in both literature and government. He had such classmates as writer Horatio Bridge, future Senator Jonathan Ciley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and future President Franklin Pierce. These friends supplied Hawthorne with government employment in bad times, which gave him time to develop as an author, even though he later threw out his old writings because of his inexperience at the time.
Hawthorne's fiancée Sophia Peabody drew him into "the newness," and in 1841 Hawthorne invested $1500 in the Brook Farm Utopian Community, but left in less than a year. His later works show some Transcendentalist influence, like his belief in individual choice......

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