Nathaniel Hawthorne was a 19th-century American author who opposed the transcendentalist movement and believed that sin was inherent in man. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and educated at Bowdoin College. He published his first book of stories, Twice-Told Tales, in 1837 and became engaged to Sophia Peabody in 1838. They joined a Transcendentalist utopian […]