Nathaniel Hawthorne and Transcendentalism Nathaniel Hawthorne, an American writer, was born in Salem, Massachusetts on July 4, 1804. His widowed mother raised him until she sent him to school at Bowdain College, where he decided he wanted to become a writer. This dream of his finally came true in 1837, when he first established himself as a writer. Hawthorne was a man strongly influenced by his Puritan heritage. He was a man of very strong opinionated, but sometimes …showed first 75 words of 1086 total…

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