Nathaniel Hawthorne was a very talented writer for his time. He has many books and some of them were really successful. One of his most famous books was called, ''The Scarlet Letter.'' He wrote other books that were successful and they were more successful once he was famous and more heard of. He wrote wonderful books all through his life. He was born in the year of 1804 in Salem Massachusettes. He had a leg injury in his younger days and had to stay inside and rest mostly. It took some time for the leg injury to heal so he had to find something to keep him occupied. He found reading to be fascinating and eventually writing as well. He began to get a mindset for reading and writing all of the time even after his leg healed. Later on in his