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1. Book Analysis Project The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne Gino Quahliero Period A-B

2. Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel was born in Salem, Massachusetts in July of 1804. He attended Bowdoin College in 1821-1825. He wrote his first two novels in 1838, My Kinsman, Major Molineuxand Roger Malvin'sBurial. After those he wrote Young Goodman Brown,Twice-Told Tales, and The House of the Seven Gables. married Sophia Peabody in July 1842. In 1846, Hawthorne became Surveyor of the Salem Custom House and returned to Salem. That June, Mosses from an Old Manse was published and his son Julian was born. In 1849 his mother passed away, but it was also the year that Hawthorne found a worn letter “A" in the attic of the old home and with it came the inspiration to write his arguably most famous novel, The Scarlet Letter. His health started to weaken in 1864. He passed away May 19, 1864. “Mr. Hawthorne is having a posthumous productivity almost as active as that of his lifetime. Six volumes have been compounded from his private journals, an unfinished romance is doing duty as a "serial," and a number of his letters, with other personal memorials, have been given to the world…” -Henry James "Heath Anthology of American Literature Nathaniel Hawthorne - Author Page." Heath Anthology of American LiteratureNathaniel Hawthorne - Author Page. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Aug. 2013.