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| 1. | Nathaniel, 1804–64, U.S. novelist and short-story writer. |
| 2. | a city in SW California, SW of Los Angeles. 56,447. |
| 3. | a city in NE New Jersey. 18,200. |
| Haw·thorne (hô'thôrn') A city of southern California, an industrial and residential suburb of Los Angeles. Population: 85,400. |
| Hawthorne, 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. |