The writer :

• Nathaniel Hawthorne (Wikipedia)
  1 Biography
  2 Writings
  3 See also
  4 External links

• Hawthorne: Bicentennial Exhibition at the Phillips Library
  - interactive site about a great American writer
  - with SOUND (pem.org)
  

'The Scarlet Letter' :

• The Scarlet Letter - Literature and Film
  "This project pairs a classic of American Literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1850), with its 1934 translation into film in order to look, first, at the values in Hawthorne's original story, and second, at the film version of this story as a product of the particular age in which it was made." 
  (webster.edu)