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.

The protagonist, Hester Prynne, has a child out of wedlock and is ostracized from town, forced to wear an embroidered red “A” on her dress for “adulterer.” “'The Scarlet Letter' is ...

The iconic work is considered America's original historical novel, and Hester Prynne its "original feminist protagonist," she says. Albanese, who wrote (with Laura Morowitz) "The Miracles of Prato ...

In Hester (St Martin’s, Aug.), Albanese imagines a character who inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Where did the idea for this book come from? Hester begins with a literary ...

Just shy of 175 years ago, Hester Prynne secured a primo spot in literary history. Arguably, thanks to school curricula and films such as Easy A, Hester remains a familiar name. Hester in Sunlight isn ...

and showcase the beauty of Truong Ngoc Anh as an Indochinese Hester Prynne ostracized by her village. Pic seems destined for fest screens and possible Euro cable play. Lovely to look at but too ...