Which American Romantic author wrote the novel 'The House of the Seven Gables'?

The American Romantic author who wrote “The House of the Seven Gables” was Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Hawthorne’s Gothic novel was published in Boston by Ticknor and Fields on April 9, 1851. It follows the Pyncheon family and their ancestral New England mansion, using the house as a symbol of inherited guilt, social decay, and the secrets that families preserve across generations.

The novel draws on Hawthorne’s interest in Salem’s history, including his ancestors’ connection to the Salem witch trials of 1692. Its fictional Pyncheon family is not a direct portrait of a real family, though the setting was influenced by the Turner-Ingersoll Mansion in Salem, which belonged to Hawthorne’s cousin Susanna Ingersoll.

Readers sometimes confuse the novel with the historic Salem house itself. The building predates the book—it was constructed in 1668—and Hawthorne transformed local architectural and historical associations into a work of fiction.