The scarlet letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne´s Biography
Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne, July 4, 1804-May 19,1864) in city of Salem, Massachusetts was an American novelist and a short story writer. He added a "W" To make his name " Hawthorne". The Scarlet Letter was published in 1820, followed by a succession of other novels. A political appointment took Hawthorne and family to Europe before their return to Wayside in 1860.
Hawthorne´s works belong romanticism or more specially dark romanticism. Many of his works are inspired by Puritan New England. His later writings also reflect his negative view of the Transcendentalism movement.
Hawthorne became one of the leading writers of his time, moving away from formalism and exploring the ideas of individual responsibility, the importance of creative expression and man’s relationship to the natural world. He also at times delves into the mysterious and disturbing.
While Hawthorne avidly read and enjoyed the short stories of James Fennimore Cooper and Sir Walter Scott, his own were not well-received at first. But whether it be Prynne’s indomitable spirit, the moral dilemma of “Young Goodman Brown” (1835), the disastrous side of vanity in “The Birth Mark” (1843), or “Ethan Brand’s” (1850) Unpardonable Sin, many of Hawthorne’s works remain popular and have inspired numerous other authors’ works, and adaptations to film.
Back home at The Wayside, Hawthorne continued to write of his travels in his Passages From Notebooks volumes. ‘We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.’ (October 25th, 1836 entry from Passages from the American Notebooks [1868]). Our Old Home (1863) was his last publication before his death. Nathaniel Hawthorne died on 19 May 1864. Franklin Pierce, James Russell Lowell, Henry Wadsworth Fellow and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes were among the many who mourned the loss of their friend. Hawthorne lies buried on Author’s Ridge in the Sleepy