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.
An American Procession: The Major American Writers from 1830 to 1930âthe Crucial Century. New York: Knopf, 1984. E-mail Citation Â». In his chapters on the antebellum era, Kazin describes American literature as the product of uniquely gifted literary artists preoccupied with the self, history, and the art of writing.