THE HOUSE OF THE
SEVEN GABLES
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Greatest of America's Earliest Writers
Born at Salem, Mass., July 4, 1804; died at Plymouth,
N. H., May 19, 1864.
Hawthorne graduated from Bowdoin College in 1825,
in the same class with Longfellow. For several years
following graduation, he wrote much at Salem, but published
little. In 1843 he took residence at Concord,
Mass., in the "Old Manse," where he wrote "Mosses
from an Old Manse" (1846); "The Scarlet Letter"
(1850). In 1851 he took residence at Lenox, Mass.,
where he wrote "The House of the Seven Gables," and
"The Blithedale Romance." He was U. S. Consul to
Liverpool 1853-1857. Other titles are: "The Marble
Faun" (1860); "True Stories from History and Biography"
(1851); "The Wonder Book for Girls and
Boys" (1851); "The Snow Image, etc." (1852);
"Tanglewood Tales" (1853); "Our Old Home"
(1863); "Grandfather's Chair;" "Twice Told Tales."
"Note Books," edited by his wife after his death, represents
a series of selections from his diaries. Among
his papers were also found "Septimus Felton, or the
Elixir of Life," chapters of the unfinished "The Dolliver
Romance," and "Dr. Grimshaw's Secret."
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