Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: An haife shi a 1804 a Salem, Massachusetts, ga Nathaniel Hathorne da tsohon Elizabeth Clarke Manning. Kakanninsa sun hada da John Hathorne, alkali daya tilo da ke da hannu a shari'ar Salem wanda bai taba tuba daga ayyukansa ba. Ya shiga Kwalejin Bowdoin a 1821, an zabe shi zuwa Phi Beta Kappa a 1824, kuma ya kammala karatunsa a 1825. Ya buga aikinsa na farko a 1828, littafin Fanshawe; daga baya ya yi ƙoƙarin danne shi, yana jin cewa bai yi daidai da matsayin aikinsa na baya ba. Ya wallafa wasu gajerun labaru a cikin mujallu, wanda ya tattara a 1837 a matsayin Twice-Told Tales. A shekara mai zuwa, ya yi alkawarin aure ga Sophia Peabody. Ya yi aiki a gidan kwastan na Boston kuma ya shiga Brook Farm, wata al'umma mai wuce gona da iri, kafin ya auri Peabody a 1842. Ma'auratan sun koma The Old Manse a Concord, Massachusetts, daga baya suka koma Salem, Berkshires, sannan zuwa The Wayside a Concord. An buga Scarlet Letter a 1850, sannan kuma wasu litattafai. Wani alƙawari na siyasa a matsayin wakili ya ɗauki Hawthorne da iyalinsa zuwa Turai kafin su koma Concord a 1860. Hawthorne ya mutu a ranar 19 ga Mayu, 1864, kuma matarsa da 'ya'yansu uku sun tsira.  Tambaya: Mene ne abubuwan da ke cikin Twice-Told Tales?
da dama gajerun labaru a cikin mujallu