For 10 points, name this author of The House of the Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter.
One of this author's title characters looks into a diorama and climbs into a kiln after searching for "unpardonable sin." This author of "Ethan Brand" wrote a novel in which Holgrave tells Phoebe about two Maule spirits who prevent the spirit of(*) Colonel Pynchon from telling his heirs where a deed is. In another novel, Pearl kisses her father, Reverend Dimmesdale, after he shows the entire town a physical manifestation of his complicity in Hester Prynne's adultery. For 10 points, name this author of The House of the Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter.
One of this author's title characters looks into a diorama and climbs into a kiln after searching for "unpardonable sin.
Nathaniel {Hawthorne}