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$This is an 1840 portrait of writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, painted by American artist Charles Osgood, that is part of the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass. Some of Hawthorne\'s famous works include "The Scarlet Letter" and "The House of the Seven Gables."$

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Nathaniel Hawthorne - Born in 1804

This is an 1840 portrait of writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, painted by American artist Charles Osgood, that is part of the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass. Some of Hawthorne's famous works include "The Scarlet Letter" and "The House of the Seven Gables."

Credit: AP Photo/Courtesy Peabody Essex Museum

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