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Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Nathaniel Hawthorne grew up surrounded by reminders of the town’s infamous past and his own family’s role in the Quaker persecutions and witch trials of the seventeenth century. By the time he was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1825, he had resolved to return to Salem, become a writer, and investigate the influence of the Puritan past on nineteenth century New England.

Hawthorne was a fundamentally reclusive person who avoided revealing himself to others except through the masks of his fiction. His persistent brooding...

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