YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN
BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) is remembered
chiefly for his novel The Scarlet Letter, but published
many other works during his lifetime. Though he was
a contemporary of the Transcendentalists and lived for
a time in a Transcendentalist farming community,
much of his work expresses a darker view of human
nature with strong undercurrents of man’s evil
possibilities. Hawthorne would become great friends
with novelist Herman Melville, and Melville dedicated
his masterpiece Moby DIck to Hawthorne.