A Utah county attorney says he will not pursue criminal charges against this polygamous family made famous by a reality TV show. A federal judge is set to decide whether to allow a lawsuit to move forward that challenges the constitutionality of Utah's bigamy law. (AP Photo/TLC, Bryant Livingston, File)
For other uses, see Scarlet Letter (disambiguation). The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is an 1850 work of fiction in a historical setting, written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. The book is considered to be his masterwork.
it s worth noting that he typed the entire draft on one 120 foot long piece of teletype paper that he taped together before writing 3 a study in scarlet the novel that introduced the famed detective work of sherlock holmes to the masses took sir aurthur conan doyle three weeks to write in 1886