In the world of true crime, Fall River, Mass. is known for Lizzie Borden, but another murder 60 years earlier captivated New ...

Drawing on the work of psychologist and motivation researcher Julia Moeller, the adolescent reading researchers Drs. Gay Ivey and Peter Johnston report that teens are stressed. Teens are so ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne told a sympathetic story about his minister in The Scarlet Letter, one of mercy and redemption. But there's little redemption for Ephraim Avery in Kate Winkler Dawson's book ...

Did Nathaniel Hawthorne base “The Scarlet Letter ... So argues Dawson, a prolific podcaster and author, in this true-crime history dissecting the case that led to Avery’s trial and acquittal.

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Strange but true stories Whether you’re an avid amateur investigator or just squeamishly curious, your ears prick up at the ...

An unwritten rule of cinema is that great books very rarely make great movies ... take Roland Joffe’s disposable and tawdry version of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Brian De Palma’s ...

Ms. Dawson is one of the authors referred to in the subtitle; the other is Catharine Read Arnold Williams (1787-1872), who investigated Cornell’s death in her 1833 book, “Fall River ...

There's romance, dystopias, cultural and musical histories, young adult novels and even a children's book about an owl-obsessed kid ... the murder that divided the country and inspired Nathaniel ...

They added a portico, terraces, and Louisa's room, while Nathaniel Hawthorne, who owned the house from 1852 through 1869, added a three-story tower in the back and used the top floor as his ...