Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts, the son and grandson of proud New England seafarers. Nathaniel Hawthorne died on 19th May 1864. Between 18 he lived in Liverpool in England while he was working as an American consul, and then in Italy, before returning to his home in Concord, Massachusetts. Melville later dedicated Moby Dick to Hawthorne. He published his most famous work, The Scarlet Letter, in 1850, and in that same year he became friends with the novelist Herman Melville. He in 1842 and he and his wife Sophia went on to have three children. He published his first novel, Fanshawe in 1828 and after this his stories began to appear in periodicals. He was educated at Bowdoin College where he became friends with the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Hawthorne's father died when he was four years old. One of his descendants was John Hathorne who presided over the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on 4th July 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts.
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