Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. Wikipedia Born : July 4, 1804, Salem, Massachusetts, United States Died : May 19, 1864, Plymouth, New Hampshire, United States Full name : Nathaniel Hathorne Short stories : Young Goodman Brown , The Birth-Mark , more Quotes Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. Easy reading is damn hard writing. "In the latter part of the last century there lived a man of science, an eminent proficient in every branch of natural philosophy, who not long before our stor