A Match made in hell

1. Dylan Smith Pd. C-D A Match made in hell

2. A short biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. He attended Bowdoin college in Brunswick, Maine with poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and future president Franklin Pierce whom he wrote a biography about in 1852. Hawthorne was an avid reader and writer of short stories and had his first novel anonymously published in 1828 called “Fanshawe.” He married on July 9, 1842 and would later have three children one of which, Julian Hawthorne, would follow in his footsteps of becoming a writer. Julian later wrote a review of “The Scarlett Letter” saying, “It has the charm of unconsciousness; the author did not realize while he worked, that this "most prolix among tales" was alive with the miraculous vitality of genius.” Herman Melville dedicated his novel “Moby Dick” in 1851 to Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne’s literary style is know as dark romanticism due to the fates of the romantic lovers he writes about. A large portion of Nathaniel’s work is based on New England during its puritan era. Some of the Novels that fall into this category are: The Scarlett Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance and The Marble Faun. Suffering from stomach pains and ill health Hawthorne still insisted to go on a trip with his good friend Franklin Pierce. While on this trip Nathaniel Hawthorne died in his sleep on May 19, 1864 and left some of his romances unfinished. They could have been the best of their time.