Nathaniel Hawthorne

About me:

I was born in Salem Massachusetts, on July fourth of 1804. my father Captain Nathaniel and Elizabeth Hathorne. I have two sisters, Elizabeth Manning, born in 1802, and Maria Louisa, born in 1808. My father was a ship captain who died in a distant port when I was a four years old. i felt in love with Shopia Peabody, and we get married on July 9, 1842. We lived in "Old Manse" in Concord for Three years. we had three children their names are Una Hawthorne, Julian Hawthorne, and Rose Hawthorne. I went to Bowdoin College where I met poet Henry Wadsworth alongfellow, a life long friend, he was a classmate. Also I wrote a campaign biography for my friend Franklin Pierce president of the United States in 1852. Then Pierce appointed me to the Consul of liverpool a position that I held for four years. Later i toured Europe with my family and spent good deal of time in Italy. my finest novels that I wrote "The Scarlet Letter," The House of the Seven Gables," and "The Blithedale Romance." I was profoundly depressed by the American Civil War but although I continue to write, otherwise my inspirations and health began to fail. My last day of life was May 19, 1864.