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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20020623
Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on 4 July 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts. (One of his ancestors was John Hathorne, a presiding magistrate in the Salem witch trials.) After leaving college, Hawthorne became a Custom House official, but the success of his most famous book, `The Scarlet Letter', enabled him to write full time. He left Salem in 1850 for Lenox, a small town in the Berkshires, where he became acquainted with the writer Herman Melville. This extract is taken from his short story `The Canterbury Pilgrims'. Hawthorne died on 19 May, 1864, in Plymouth, New Hampshire.

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