January 6, 2009
The Scarlet Letter
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Ah, but let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart.”
—Chapter 2
Fun Facts
- Hawthorne attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine along with Franklin Pierce and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
- Hawthorne was a descendent of early Puritan settlers, a heritage that would haunt him and inform his writing.
- The Scarlet Letter was an instant bestseller but in more than fourteen years, Hawthorne only earned $1,500 from it.
- Hawthorne was part of a brief transcendentalist experiment in group living called Brook Farm, located in West Roxbury, Massachusetts.
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