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Study guide 18 Study Guide for The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne CABOUT THE AUTHOR Nathaniel Hawthorne had a low opinion of autobiography and refrained from writing one In fact his wife once said ??He had a horror that his life would be written ?

Study Guide for The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne CABOUT THE AUTHOR Nathaniel Hawthorne had a low opinion of autobiography and refrained from writing one In fact his wife once said ??He had a horror that his life would be written ? Although Hawthorne did not write the story of his life he left behind a wealth of material ??journals letters un ?nished manuscripts and published works ?? that reveal who he was and how he lived Hawthorne was born in Salem Massachusetts Generations of Hathornes ??as the name was formerly spelled ??had lived in Salem Hawthorne was well aware of their status in the community though that status was not always admirable For example Hawthorne lived with the knowledge that his great-great-grandfather a judge in the Salem witch trials was responsible for the deaths of some of the accused witches Scholars have concluded that Hawthorne keenly felt the burden of his ancestry and assumed the guilt of his Puritan grandfathers When Hawthorne was four years old his father a sea captain died while on a voyage Hawthorne ? s mother Elizabeth took the boy and his two sisters to live with her a uent brothers In this chaotic crowded multiple-family home young Hawthorne somehow managed to foster a love of reading After graduating from college he did not assume a career He knew only that he was deter- mined to one day become a writer His ?rst literary work begun during college was titled Fanshawe He used his own money to have it published but soon decided it simply wasn ? t good enough to be made public and so he tried to destroy all the copies that had been printed All told Hawthorne spent a dozen years after college reading and writing He lived with his mother in Salem during this period Gradually he met with success he sold some short stories which were published under a pseudonym Finally in he published Twice-Told Tales a collection of short stories under his own name Hawthorne continued to write short stories for magazines but he made only a modest living After marrying Sophia Peabody in he appealed to several friends for help in ?nding a job and they were able to obtain for him a position at the Salem custom house He lost his job in a circumstance that he resented and wrote about in ??The Custom-House ? the introductory chapter of The Scarlet Letter Soon after he lost his job his mother died In the midst of his grief he wrote The Scarlet Letter which was published in Hawthorne himself felt it to be a gloomy story about a risky subject but the book met with some success eventually ensuring Hawthorne ? s place in literary history Though Hawthorne achieved fame he was not necessarily comfortable playing the role of revered author He was shy and avoided making eye contact with people At home he was likely to head out the back door if he knew a guest had