Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864) Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer. Hawthorne published his first work, a novel titled Fanshowe (1828): he later tried to suppress it, feeling it was not equal to the standard of his later work. He published several short stories in various periodicals, which he collected in 1837 as Twice Told Tales, and later in 1842. His fiction works are considered part of Romantic Movement and more specifically Dark Romanticism. In 1836, Hawthorne served as editor of the American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge. Hawthorne wrote most of the tales collected in Mosses from an Old Manse. Hawthorne became friends with Herman Melville in 1850, who read his short story collection. Mosses from an Old Manse, and his unsigned review of the collection titled Hawthorne and his Mosses, were printed in “The Literary World”. Melville, who composing Moby-Dick at the time, wrote that these stories revealed a dark s