" One of this author's characters peers into a mysterious diorama exhibited by an old German Jew before burning himself to death in a lime-kiln.
Nina Baym wrote about this author "as feminist" in her essay "Thwarted Nature." In a letter to his publisher, this author complained about being outsold by a "damned mob of scribbling women." One of this author's characters peers into a mysterious diorama exhibited by an old German Jew before burning himself to death in a lime-kiln. This author wrote a short story in which Polly Gookin is wooed by a scarecrow brought to life by Old Mother Rigby, as well as a story about a man who becomes "the outcast of the universe" after banishing himself from his wife's house for twenty years. Another of his stories is named for a man who journeys to find the Unpardonable Sin and finds it in his heart. Herman Melville wrote a laudatory review of this author "and his mosses." For 10 points, name this American author of "Feathertop," "Wakefield," and "Ethan Brand," who published many of his short stories in his collection Twice-Told Tales.
Nina Baym wrote about this author "as feminist" in her essay "Thwarted Nature."
Nathaniel Hawthorne