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When did Nathaniel Hawthorne start making music?

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Nathaniel Hawthorne's first song “Twice Told Tales (The Great Carbuncle)” released in December 1835.


One of the great writers in the flowering of American letters in the mid-19th century, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was a much-lauded novelist and short-story writer whose work emphasized the human capacity for sin and evil. Through much of his life, he earned a living not through his writing but through a series of government jobs,... Read More
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