... his uncle); however, he did not hold much interest in traditional schooling and focused primarily on studying literature (Turner). Knowing already that he wanted to be an author, he stated; "I do not want to be a doctor and live by men's diseases, nor a minister to live by their sins, nor a lawyer ... to live by their quarrels. So, I don't see that there is anything left for me but to be an author (qt. in "Nathaniel Hawthorne - Biography")." Upon his graduation from Bowdoin in 1825, Hawthorne moved back to his mother's house in Salem where he spent ... he would later refer to as a period...

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