The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne by Dawson, Kate Winkler

The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne

Acclaimed journalist, podcaster, and true-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the true story of the scandalous murder...
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The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne by Dawson, Kate Winkler

The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne

$373.11

The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne

$373.11
Author: Kate Winkler Dawson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Acclaimed journalist, podcaster, and true-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the true story of the scandalous murder investigation that became the inspiration for both Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and the first true-crime book published in America.

On a cold winter day in 1832, Sarah Maria Cornell was found dead in a quiet farmyard in a small New England town. When her troubled past and a secret correspondence with charismatic Methodist minister Reverend Ephraim Avery was uncovered, more questions emerged. Was Sarah's death a suicide...or something much darker? Determined to uncover the real story, Victorian writer Catharine Read Arnold Williams threw herself into the investigation as the trial was unfolding and wrote what many claim to be the first American true-crime narrative, Fall River. The murder divided the country and inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter--but the reverend was not convicted, and questions linger to this day about what really led to Sarah Cornell's death. Until now.

In The Sinners All Bow, acclaimed true-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson travels back in time to nineteenth-century small-town America, emboldened to finish the work Williams started nearly two centuries before. Using modern investigative advancements--including "forensic knot analysis" and criminal profiling (which was invented fifty-five years later with Jack the Ripper)--Dawson fills in the gaps of Williams's research to find the truth and bring justice to an unsettling mystery that speaks to our past as well as our present, anchored by three women who subverted the script they were given.

Author: Kate Winkler Dawson
Publisher: Random House Large Print Publishing
Published: 01/07/2025
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.13w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9780593949115

About the Author
Kate Winkler Dawson is a seasoned documentary producer, podcaster, and true-crime historian whose work has appeared in The New York Times, WCBS News and ABC News Radio, PBS NewsHour, and Nightline. She is the creator of two hit podcasts: Tenfold More Wicked and Wicked Words, and the cohost of the Buried Bones podcast on the Exactly Right network. She is the author of American Sherlock, Death in the Air, All That Is Wicked, and is a professor of journalism at The University of Texas at Austin.

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