The Scarlet Letter Project

1. The Scarlet Letter Project McKenzie Gould Period A-B The Scarlet Letter By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

2. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. Nathaniel lived with his mother and father on 27 Hardy Street, that is now a museum. He was the son of Elizabeth Clarke Manning and Nathaniel Hawthorne, a Captain in the U. S. Navy who died when Nathaniel was four years old. After his father died Nathaniel and his mother moved to his mothers parents house. After high school, Nathaniel went to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. He was very good at writing and also wrote short stories. A few of his stories got published in magazines. After he graduated, he continued writing and improved. On July 9, 1842, Nathaniel married Sophia Peabody. Sophia painted and she was a transcendentalist. Nathaniel and Sophia had three children. They had two daughters named Una and Rose, and one son named Julian. Nathaniel continued writing stories and novels. Nathaniel was inspired to write “The Scarlet Letter” when he found a worn letter “A" in the attic of his old home. The Scarlet letter became his most famous novel. Hawthorne inspired many people, including Herman Melville who wrote "There is no man, in whom humor and love, like mountain peaks, soar to such a rapt height, as to receive the irradiations of the upper skies; there is no man in whom humor and love are developed in that high form called genius." Nathaniel died on May 18-19 while traveling to New Hampshire with Franklin Pierce. Hawthorne went to sleep and never woke up. Nathaniel is now buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts. http://www.online-literature.com/hawthorne/ http://www.egs.edu/library/nathaniel-hawthorne/biography/ http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org/Life&Times/BiographicalInfo/Adultlife/Introduction.html http://www.shmoop.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/biography.html Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864