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born: 7/4/1804 died: 5/16/1864 born as: Nathaniel Hathorne
nationality: USA
American novelist and short-story writer who was a master of the allegorical and symbolic tale. One of the greatest fiction writers in American literature, he is best known for The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851). - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature