For 10 points, name this author of The House of the Seven Gables who wrote about the adulterous Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter.
One of his novels takes its name from a Praxiteles sculpture and is about Miriam and the "romance of the Count of Monte Beni." In one short story by this author, the protagonist invites Colonel Killigrew and others to drink water from the Fountain of Youth. This author of The Marble Faun and "(*) Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" included the latter in his Twice Told Tales. He also wrote about Phoebe and the Pynchon residence, as well as Arthur Dimmesdale and a woman's illegitimate daughter, Pearl. For 10 points, name this author of The House of the Seven Gables who wrote about the adulterous Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter.
One of his novels takes its name from a Praxiteles sculpture and is about Miriam and the "romance of the Count of Monte Beni."
Nathaniel {Hawthorne }