... his great grandfathers was John Hathorne (Hawthorne added the "w" to his name when he began to write), one of the judges at the 1692 Salem witch trials. Hawthorne was both fascinated and disturbed by his family relationship with John Hawthorne. His father was a sea captain that died when the young ... as a writer and contributor to newspapers. Then, he published his first novel Fanshawe in 1828. Later on, he tried to publish a collection of short stories about New England, in which it is included "Young Goodman Brown": His first effort, Seven Tales of My Native Land, seems to have gone ...

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