Centuries apart, Hester Prynne's public shaming in Puritan Boston and tech CEO Andy Byron's recent social media downfall ...

Hester Prynne in the Internet Age By Jonathan Zimmerman October 12, 2010. Life imitating art? ... Owen is our real-life Easy A, sacrificed on the altar of America’s double standard.

Laurie Lico Albanese's "Hester" takes readers to 19th-century Salem a few years before Nathaniel Hawthorne became famous, and imagines a love affair between the writer and his real life Hester Prynne.

Published by St. Martin's Press on Oct. 4, "Hester" imagines a life for a fictional Scottish immigrant named Isobel Gamble who lands in Salem, Massachusetts in 1829 and meets the young Hawthorne.

Writer’s Block: Real-life Hester Prynne illuminates need for world-wide women’s rights. ... Hester Prynne, who is sentenced to forever wear a scarlet ‘A’ upon her breast. In my class, we have ...

The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne Kate Winkler Dawson. Putnam, $29 (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-71361-7 ...

In "Hester," the latest novel by long-time Montclair resident Laurie Lico Albanese, the author puts a fresh spin on a question scholars have wondered about since Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote his ...

For “In the Blood,” Parks reimagines Hester Prynne as an inner-city woman struggling to make ends meet as she raises her five children, each the product of a different, long-gone father.

For “In the Blood,” Parks reimagines Hester Prynne as an inner-city woman struggling to make ends meet as she raises her five children, each the product of a different, long-gone father.