Hawthorne

(t̸hôrn′)

Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804-64; U.S. novelist & short-story writer

Origin: after Nathaniel Hawthorne

city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 84,000

See Hawthorne in American Heritage Dictionary 4

A city of southern California, an industrial and residential suburb of Los Angeles. Population: 85,400.

, Nathaniel 1804-1864.

American writer whose novels, such as The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851), and short stories, including “Young Goodman Brown” (1835), are marked by elegant prose and moralistic and spiritual themes.

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