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Source: The House of the Seven Gables, Ch. 2 -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, (Jul 4 1804-1864), US novelist, short-story writer; He was the leading U.S. fiction-writer of 19th century; wrote The Scarlet Letter, 1850.