the correct answer option for this is: false.
explanation:
we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.
the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.
though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .