... E. and Bobby E. Kimbel, eds. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 74: American Short - Story Writers Before 1880. The Gale Group, 1988. pp. 143-163. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "Young Goodman Brown." Literature for Composition: Essays, Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Barnet, Sylvan ed. et al. New York: Longman, 2000. pp. 1207-1215. Martin, Terence. Nathaniel Hawthorne. London: Twayne Publishers, 1983. Mott, Wesley T., ... ed. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 223: The American Renaissance in New England, Second ... Series. The Gale Group, 2000. pp. 183-218. Rohrberger, Mary. Hawthorne ...

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Beauty; the unattainable possession Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of literature's greatest and also most well known American writer's of his time. Hawthorne's brilliant use of symbolism is shown greatly in his writings. Being a lonely child while living in Salem, Massachusetts Hawthorne devoted a lot of his time to writing and he eventually graduated from Bowdoin College. Writing being the one thing he knew he wanted to ... his works and he even got a reward for one of his biography pieces. After living in Italy for a little with his wife, Sophia Amelia Peabody, they moved back to the United Sta...

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