... to writing and he eventually graduated from Bowdoin College. Writing being the one thing he knew he wanted to do, Hawthorne secluded himself for 12 years to learn to write fiction. Hawthorne concentrated on mastering novels, short stories and children's classics. It's been known that, "Hawthorne was influenced chiefly by authors in the great tradition - Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, and Bunyan- ( Baym.16). Critics praised ... Hawthorne for 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 mov...

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